Charlotte died on Friday, and I feel really sad. She was a beautiful and expressive chicken, who was also bossy and opinionated – and a little cranky a lot of the time. I noticed she was looking a little droopy and not very energetic and, when we checked her out, we discovered that she was in […]
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Review of ‘Bleating Hearts’ at The Kind Life
Good morning! Today I have a book review of Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering by Mark Hawthorne up at Alicia Silverstone’s site, The Kind Life. I hope you’ll hop on over there to read it. This book is extraordinary. Even as a committed animal advocate, I learned so much from it and […]
Hauntings
It’s a rare individual who is not haunted in some way. Haunted by memories of things we could have done differently. Times when we could have been kinder, could have said something different that might have changed the way things happened. We are haunted by memories of people and animals we’ve lost. Haunted by the changing […]
New Article Published at ‘Gender, Place & Culture’
Usually, I stick with the non-academic subjects on the blog, but occasionally I like to share the academic work I’m doing. In addition to working on the dissertation, I’ve also been working on some publishing projects: a few articles and two different edited book projects. Recently, an article of mine just came out at the feminist geography journal, […]
News Recap
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks of travel, recuperation, school work, etc. Having just returned from L.A. for the annual Association of American Geographers meeting, I thought I’d just recap a number of news items. AG-GAG LAWS The most relevant for animal advocates is the increasingly public flurry of debate about ag-gag laws. Will […]