Just a very quick note today to nudge you over to two guest posts that are out today. One is “Making Eco-fashion for Kids” at The Kind Life. It was a blast putting this post together. The other is a review at Our Hen House of the beautiful book Sanctuary by Sharon Lee Hart. If you […]
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Reflections on Religion and Activism
I had the opportunity about a month ago to read and review an amazing book for Our Hen House—Animals and World Religionsby Lisa Kemmerer (review was posted today). This book in many ways restored my faith in the potential of religion to make social change. When I was growing up, my relationship with religion involved a […]
Book Review: “Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport”
Good morning, Monday readers! I’m writing from hot and sunny California this morning to nudge you over to Our Hen House for another book review —this one about Jim Robertson’s thought provoking book about hunting for sport—Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport. At the end of the review, I’ve asked some questions about […]
Timothy Pachirat Reading on KUOW
Just a quick post to let you know that Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight, will be on KUOW radio, which you can listen to right here online. The date and time is this Thursday 8pm PST. If you missed his reading at Elliot Bay Books here […]
Understanding Anarchism
You may or may not have heard about the May Day events here in Seattle yesterday. May Day is a global day of action and solidarity for worker and immigration rights and there were events planned around the world to peacefully demonstrate in the spirit of social justice. Media coverage, of course, has not focused on the peaceful demonstrations or the politics surrounding labor and […]
Book Review at Our Hen House: “Every Twelve Seconds”
For this bright and early Monday morning I want to nudge you over to Our Hen House to read another book review by yours truly. This one is a review of Timothy Pachirat’s recent book, Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. If you haven’t read it already, I would highly recommend the […]
Book Review at Our Hen House
Good morning, Monday! Just wanted to write a quick note to nudge you all over to Our Hen House this morning. When I was in NYC, I met with the lovely ladies of Our Hen House and we chatted over some delicious Korean food about animal rights, activism, and academics. They kindly invited me to do […]
Celebrating Adrienne Rich
When I was 16, I took my first class at the University of Pittsburgh–a feminist writing class taught by Sharon McDermott. The class changed my life at the time and introduced me to feminism in a way that has stayed with me since then. One of the authors we read was Adrienne Rich. Rich has written extensively […]
Seattle Public Library Spring Mini Booksale
Okay, here it is! Remember in September when I told you about the Seattle Public Library Fall Book Sale? Well, here’s the spring version. Coming right up. Twice a year, the Seattle Public Library has a book sale in a hangar bay in Magnuson Park. The fall sale is much bigger, but the spring one is definitely […]
Carnism: Making the Invisible Visible
I spent several hours this weekend reading through the comments section of the NYTimes ‘Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat” contest and getting progressively depressed by the tendency of ‘meat-eaters’ to dismiss vegans as elitist, irrational, extreme or simple wrong and to justify their meat consumption in a variety of predictable arguments–some more absurd than […]
