0 Veganism as Social Somatic Response-Ability

Igualdad Animal Demonstration in Spain (www.igualdadanimal.org) No one can deny the suffering, fear or panic, the terror or fright that huma...

0 Veganism without Vegetarianism: On Guilt, Disability, and Ex-Vegans

THE QUESTION While attending the Thinking About Animals conference in the spring 2011, I stumbled upon an odd and heretical questions: Coul...

0 On Veganism, Love, and Forgiveness

Once upon a time in the summer of 2008, I interned at an animal sanctuary in upstate New York. It was by far one of the best experiences of ...

0 Social(ist) Animals: Toward Mutual Aid against the Great Butcher

Sue Coe. 2004. "Ox Pull." From "Bully!: master of the Global Merry-go-round" Source: http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/b...

0 Deconstructing Veganism: Commodity, Reciprocity, & the Killing Contract

Preface As I previously mentioned, most of my blogging over the last year has been on Facebook. I do not have the time to write as masterful...

0 Vegan logos, 11 Reasons

So I was recently asked by someone why I was vegan. Oddly, this hadn't been something I had thought about recently, so I decided to go t...

0 Veganism as Intersectional Social Justice (part 1)

Introduction Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought a...

0 Skinny Bitch and Bulimic Vegetarians

Introduction In 2007, few people would have expected a "no-nonsense" book of "tough-love" for American females to become...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (review)

Table of Contents Part 1 : Are Animals the New Slaves? What Went Wrong? Racism, Speciesism, and Cross-racial Misunderstanding Are human-anim...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (part 5)

After having argued that there is actually quite a bit of racial diversity in the international and domestic vegetarian and animal rights mo...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (part 4)

Introduction In part 1 of the Privilege series, I examined a particular case of when vegan outreach goes wrong (i.e. the public juxtapositi...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (part 3)

Introduction In the last post , I described some of the reasons how and why the animal and veg*n movement(s) are alienating to people of col...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (part 2)

In the first part in this series on privilege and veganism, I analyzed the poor reception of PeTA’s “Are Animals the New Slaves?” exhibit an...

0 Privilege: The U.S. Vegan Movement, Whiteness, and Race Relations (part 1)

Introduction My aim in this series on privilege is to examine the (not so) invisible whiteness of the “vegan” movement. In the subsequential...