Look Both Ways Before Crossing, pt 1
This is the first of two posts accompanying my talk entitled “Inconvenient Connections: Collisions at the Intersection of Race, Sex, Class, and Species” at the Their Lives, Our Voices animal rights conference in Minneapolis. In a future post, I’ll summarize that talk, which demonstrated the necessity of exercising caution at dangerous intersections; offered practical DOs and DON’Ts for activists seeking to diversify their organizations and/or work in coalition with other organizations; and suggested how thinking through these issues clarifies the importance of material as well as rhetorical strategies, thereby possibly helping to resolve such vexing movement controversies such as the illusory welfare-abolition dichotomy.
This post is actually an adjunct to the talk, directing those who attended (and those who didn’t) to on- and off-line resources for further study and reflection.
First, let me share links to some of my own past speeches and articles covering some of the same material, sometimes in more depth than possible in this talk:
Their Bodies, Our Selves: Moving Beyond Speciesism and Sexism
Of Brides and Bridges: Linking Feminist, Queer, and Animal Liberation
Get Real: Facing Reality and Crafting Strategies Accordingly
Toward Total Animal Liberation
Next here are some online articles by other people:
Goin’ Nuts for Donuts by Amie Breeze Harper
Satya Magazine interview with Amie Breeze Harper
White Poison in Colorlines Magazine
Thinking Like a Chicken by Karen Davis
From Heroic to Holistic Ethics by Marti Kheel
Mothering, Caring, and Animal Liberation by Greta Gaard
Recommended books:
Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat
Carol Adams, The Pornography of Meat
Barbara Smith (ed), Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Moraga & Anzaldua (eds), This Bridge Called My Back
Diamond & Orenstein (eds), Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism
Suzanne Pharr, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Michele Pickover, Animal Rights in South Africa
A. Breeze Harper, Sistah Vegan (forthcoming: Lantern)
… and, um…
pattrice jones, Aftershock
And, finally, websites to watch:
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Critical Resistance
Vegans of Color blog
Sistah Vegan Project (sign up to be notified when the anthology is published)
More from Minneapolis maybe later today…
June 8th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I was at your talk today about the intersection of race, class, sex and species and also attended the discussion on grief and stress. Both were invaluable. I learned so much and appreciated your openness, honesty, and knowledge in both sessions. Thank you for posting additional reading (can’t wait to check it out!). It was great to meet you, and I look forward to reading the blog and your book.
Thanks for the education, and for everything you do for the animals!