Jill Johnston’s 1974 book, Gullibles Travels, was the travel guide by which I navigated my lesbian youth, its wild tales of psychedelic yet political queer debauchery providing the necessary female counterpoint to the boy-heavy tales of bar hopping told by the gay men in the makeshift family to which I fled from my biological family [...]
Charles Patterson’s powerful and important book, Eternal Treblinka, was rejected by 83 (!) publishers before Lantern Books agreed to take the risk of publishing a relentlessly researched account of the shared roots of human and animal exploitation named after Isaac Bashevis Singer’s observation that “for animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” (Treblinka was a Nazi [...]
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Coming Out for Animals: Queering Animal Liberation
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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 [...]
“I don’t care what they think about me. I just want them to go vegan.”
That’s what Karen Dawn said to me after I remarked that I hoped her new book would lead people in the animal advocacy movement to give her more credit as an thinker.
Karen is one of a number of women in [...]
Today is Memorial Day in the USA. If I’m right about my history, and I think I am, the original purpose of the holiday was not to glorify war but rather, in the wake of the carnage of the Civil War, to make sure everybody really remembered what was lost.
Maybe they suspected that the American [...]
I’m really excited to announce that my pal Marti Kheel’s new book Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective is now available from Rowman & Littlefield.
Marti is the cofounder of Feminists for Animal Rights and is one of the most thought-provoking theorists I know. Her essay, “From heroic to holistic ethics: The ecofeminist challenge,” should be required [...]
Some months ago, Post Punk Kitchen diva Isa Chandra Moskowitz invited me to a virtual dinner date and I promised to return the invitation. Now, it’s about to happen except that it’s real rather than virtual.
That’s right, tonight I actually have to cook for the author of the classic Vegan with a Vengeance and the [...]
