Call for Proposals: Queering Animal Liberation
Call for Proposals
What do queer liberation and animal liberation have to do with each other? How does the construction of homosexuality as both “unnatural” and “bestial” hurt both people and animals? How are speciesism and heterosexism interrelated and how do they fit into the matrix of race-sex-class oppression? Why have both homosexuality and veganism been dismissed as “white things” beside the point of real liberation struggles? What are we going to do about homophobia among straight-edge vegans? About those dreadful gay rodeos? Should we be arguing for pleather or against sexual practices that mimic the subjugation of animals? What’s so sexy about whips, chains, and choke collars anyway? What do hip hop “video vixens” and activist “vegan vixens” have in common beyond the performance of animality for the heterosexual male gaze?
Proposal Deadline: 30 August, 2008
About the Editors
Kim Stallwood is a writer and independent scholar living in East Sussex, England. He is the former executive director of PETA (1987-1992); former editor-in-chief of Animal’s Agenda magazine (1993-2002); former co-executive director (2002-2007) and current European Director of the Animals and Society Institute. He is the editor of two anthologies, Speaking Out for Animals and A Primer on Animal Rights, as well as a contributor to several other anthologies. Kim blogs at Grumpy Vegan and can be reached at kim (at) grumpyvegan.com

July 9th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[...] intersectionality, queerness, race, sexuality I am so excited about this! Pattrice Jones recently posted a call for proposals for a new anthology to be called Coming Out for Animals: Queering Animal [...]
July 10th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Fabulous questions. Should be a fantastic anthology.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Oh, this looks good! I will definitely get the word out. I can’t wait to see the final results!
July 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
[...] Noah, Dani at the Vegan Ideal has a sharp critique for the recent call for proposals about queers & AR. She brings up some really important points about the ties between the AR [...]