POETRY: A Blue Dot
Perhaps Mars once did have “life”.
Perhaps there were once dragonflies and porcupines
Elephants and roses
And there had to be humans…
Browsing: Culture
VIDEO: WHO’S THE ANIMAL?
Who’s The Animal? Check out this thought provoking film that was made for BBC RAW,…
The Adventures of Lawan, Dog of a Thousand Names
A memorial tribute to an incredible little dog from Thailand, who survived history’s deadliest tsunami, crossed the Pacific, and defended her new human family from demons and swordsmen.
Wolf Country
(Crosspost with Cyrano’s Journal Today) his year marks the 20th anniversary of wolf reintroduction in…
How I Learned To Hate Animals
We learn the rationales for non-human exploitation in drips and drops. This education — or more accurately, miseducation —probably takes place throughout our lifespan, with different answers formulated to meet our ideological needs at different times and places.
POETRY: The Animals’ Prayer
Blessed are the animals
For they shall lead us back
To our lost innocence…
Feminism and Veganism
“I don’t mean to say that women who eat meat are bad feminists, but I do encourage feminists to examine the parallels between our oppression and the way animals used for agriculture are treated. To me, veganism is the logical conclusion to be drawn from feminism.”
Charlotte Laws: Rebel with a Cause
By Denise Fleck n her tell-all memoir, Rebel in High Heels, long-time animal activist, Charlotte…
POETRY: The Killing Fields of Quabbin
Blind terror and bewilderment
As the guns crash and echo
Through once virgin forest…
Amazing Amazon Rainforest Realities
During a January 1999 visit to the Tambopata-Candama Reserved Area in southeastern Peru, we were struck by the contrast between the Amazonian rainforest as it is and the image most people have of it.
Nourishing Compassion: On the Meaning of Our New Logo
The logo of the Animal People Forum includes a stylized version of the Chinese character 仁. Pronounced “Ren” in English, it signifies in Confucian spiritual philosophy an aspect of human nature that emerges in relation to others, including animals.
Toward an Intersectional Animal Studies
For more than a decade and with many others, I have been trying to think through the multiple entanglements between human and non-human joys and suffering. Our thinking about human issues necessarily involves thinking about animal issues. Similarly, considering animals expands our understanding of the world around us including some of the most pressing issues at hand, such as climate change, food justice, racial violence, and colonial legacies of dispossession and environmental degradation.