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Essay Reading – Dear New Vegan
Newly establishing vegans face a number of hurdles in their transition, but not all of them have to do with changing palates. New vegans must also contest with the gender politics of food and...
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The Woman as Sexy Dying Animal Trope
Too frequently in anti-speciesism advocacy, women become stand-ins for Nonhuman Animals suffering from extreme human violence and degradation. It is not by chance that women predominate in these...
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Animal Whites and Wrongs
For a movement built on racism and white-dominated in leadership, theory, and rhetoric, it is all too common for Nonhuman Animal rights activists in the age of “colorblindness” and Donald Trump’s...
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Is This What Vegan Looks Like?
In the June 2018 issue of Women’s Health UK, I was interviewed on the prevailing stereotype of angry vegans that has dominated British media in recent months. In the article, I clarify that, although...
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Queer Appalachia and Vegan Activism
Photo Credit: Raymond Troumbly By Z. Zane McNeill People always assume that growing up queer in West Virginia was difficult, but I always tell them that I was bullied more for being vegan than being...
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The Vegan Experience for Older Women
In a publication authored with my colleague Alexus Lizardi, Older, Greener, and Wiser: Charting the Experiences of Older Women in the American Vegan Movement, we offer the first exploratory research...
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Gender and Victorian Animal Advocacy
Although the nonhuman animal rights movement in the West is frequently framed by activists and remembered by historians as gender-neutral, Donald’s (2020) Women against Cruelty (which examines meeting...
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International Women’s Day is a Vegan Feminist Issue, not a PETA Campaign
Each March 8th, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (the world’s largest Nonhuman Animal rights organization) appropriates International Women’s Day to spotlight its sexist campaigning. Given...
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Vegan Campout…for Men?
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Vegan Camp Out is a British vegan festival held every uly that gathers thousands of attendees for a weekend of vegan talks, activities, and socialising. With tickets...
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Men, Meat, Milk, and Toxic Masculinity
Vegan feminism is not only a critique of women’s experiences, the feminization of protest, the sexual and sexist exploitation of animals, or the patriarchy in the abstract. To be fit for purpose,...
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The Problem with Badge-Allies
The abolitionist faction of the Nonhuman Animal rights movement is unique in the movement because it specifically values intersectionality. That is, abolitionist activists recognize that sexism,...
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Women and Vegan Civil Resistance
Although vegan feminism is a relatively new theory of social change in the West, it has had a rich background with a variety of innovative tactics, developed by innovative women in the resistance. In...
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