SuperWeed

Ever wonder what birds are saying? Mostly it’s just, “I’m over here!” and “I’m over here!”
A few years ago, I was sitting in a dentist’s waiting room and couldn’t help overhearing the two receptionists as they chatted while doing their work. One was filing in an alcove, the other answering phones and checking in patients [...]

April 4th, 2009 | Tags: Animals, communication, technology | Category: Animals | Leave a comment

NB: Links to Carnival entries are here
“What do strip mining and child sexual abuse have in common? Vivisection.”
That’s how I started my presentation on the “commonalities of oppression” panel at the recent AR2008 conference. I’ll post the whole talk next week as one of my two contributions to the blog “Carnival Against Vivisection” that I’ll [...]

August 30th, 2008 | Category: Activism, Animals, Vivisection | Comments (11)

I forgot to give the link for the blog for the Coming Out for Animals anthology. Besides serving as a reference point for potential anthology contributors and readers, the blog will be offering news and views related to the intersections among queer and animal oppression and liberation. It’s already loaded with links to relevant texts [...]

July 11th, 2008 | Category: Animals, Intersections, Queer, Writing | Leave a comment

Call for Proposals
Coming Out for Animals: Queering Animal Liberation

Please forward or re-post freely!
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 [...]

July 9th, 2008 | Category: Activism, Animals, Books, Intersections, Queer, Writing | Comments (4)

As you may have heard, The Animals Voice magazine has folded. Publisher Veda Stram asked me to share this link through which activists can access free full-text PDFs of the past seven issues.

July 3rd, 2008 | Category: Activism, Animals | Comments (1)

clipped from www.cnn.com

A dolphin swam up to two distressed whales that appeared headed for death in a beach stranding in New Zealand and guided them to safety, witnesses said Wednesday.

Rescuers worked for more than one hour to get the whales back into the water, only to see them strand themselves four times [...]

March 13th, 2008 | Category: Animals | Leave a comment