Summary of talk given for the Commonality of Oppression panel at AR2008.
What do strip mining and child sexual abuse have in common? Vivisection.
“Vivisection” means to cut into something that is alive. We’re all living with vivisection, from the dissociation of emotion within ourselves to the hole in the ozone layer that menaces our living biosphere. [...]
Now, in the wake of the police riots in St Paul, seems to be an especially apt moment for my report on the “History of Activist Repression” panel at AR2008, on which I appeared along with Heidi Boghosian and Will Potter. Here it is…
Speaking to a SRO crowd, National Lawyer’s Guild executive director Heidi Boghosian [...]
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 [...]
Today is poetry day in my classes. Each student brings in and reads a poem of his or her choice. I teach speech and this is the time in the term when we are focusing on using language colorfully and concisely as well as aspects of delivery such as rhythm and vocal expressiveness.
In my first [...]
Because I’m working on a related anthology chapter, I finally finished typing up a talk I gave back in April of last year. I’ll post it as a document in the texts section of my website, whenever I get around to fixing that up, but here it is now, for anybody who’s interested.
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The attendees at the event I recapped in my last post surprised me with vegan cupcakes and a round of “Happy Birthday,” which was very dear of them but which provoked a bittersweet memory for me.
The last time a group of people sang that to me, I was in Islamabad, where I delivered this talk [...]
There I was, pontificating on feminism and animal liberation at NYU, when after an hour of literally feverish (I had a bad cold) lecturing, I felt the need to rush from the room and splash cold water on my face. So I brought my talk abruptly to a close, suggesting that we break for refreshments [...]
