As a way of helping the Eastern Shore Sanctuary get some publicity in the midst of our more expensive than anticipated relocation, Mickey Z wrote up an interview with me for OpEd News. It covers trauma and recovery, rooster rehabilitation, the social construction of gender by way of animals, and the origins of the sanctuary. [...]
Coming back to the subject of texts that work themselves into who you are, I recently had occasion to reread a couple of classic texts in anarcha-feminism and found myself staring, slack-jawed, at neatly underlined pages filled with ideas that are so much a part of me I’d swear they were my own if the [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
At least a million children are enslaved in brothels in Asia, to which men from the US and Europe travel specifically for the purpose of unrestricted “sex” with unfree women and children who literally can’t say no, lest they be beaten or killed for doing so. But exploitation of enslaved Asian women isn’t limited [...]
Arguing that “hamburgers and radical feminism are mutually exclusive,” Twisty over at I Blame the Patriarchy has bid farewell to bacon.
Meanwhile, over at AfroSpear, thefreeslave argues that “you can’t be a revolutionary and eat the white man’s food.”
Check out the comments steams for both of those posts. Also of interest is the ongoing problem-solving comment [...]
The latest in the ongoing saga of treating women like meat as a misguided means of trying to get people to quit eating meat. The owner’s comment says more than I ever could about the ways that sex workers are seen by the men who make money by peddling their flesh.
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