Geographies of health and well-being 1: Racial weathering.

This report focuses on the concept of "racial weathering," an interdisciplinary framework that integrates critical public health, Black feminist, Indigenous geographies, critical science studies, and anticolonial perspectives to examine how socio-political and environmental violences shape embodied health outcomes. It reviews scholarship on weaponized weathering—how states and institutions use climatic and atmospheric conditions as tools of racialized violence—and explores abolitionist and decolonial responses centered on breathing and storytelling as practices of resistance and care. The report emphasizes the relational and multi-scalar nature of weathering, linking biological, geographical, and socio-political processes, and critiques dominant Western and settler-colonial epistemologies of climate and health. It sets the stage for subsequent analyses of reproductive weathering, epigenetics, and biomedical data ecologies within this constellation of racialized health inequities.