Vegan Period Politics
Critical menstruation studies will need to overcome species stigma and engage with vegan studies that are better positioned to understand the politics of animality in the perpetuation of inequality. Continue reading →
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Critical essays and resources for vegan women and their allies
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Kasia Oleskiewicz, exhibition Any Body Home
By Kasia Oleskiewicz My solo exhibition Any Body Home is being presented at the War Memorial Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh (31.01 — 29.03.2026) as part of the series Catalyst: Art as Activism. Through the show, I imagine public space as safe … Continue reading →
The Politics of Attraction
That the majority of males and females designated at birth remain uncritical of structurally hetero male supremacist organized gendering because they are politically habituated to it certainly implies it has nothing to do with personal failure. No individual is to blame for their socialization, but with liberatory knowledge comes an obligation for men to take collective action for renewal. Vegans,…
Lizzy Lind-af-Hageby: Vegan Feminist, Lesbian, Anti-Vivisectionist, and Scientist
Lind-af-Hageby and her partner Schartau are two more amazing vegan feminist lesbian leaders who have been all but lost to the patriarchal activist imagination. They were literally trailblazers, entering into vivisection laboratories and slaughterhouses, employing scientific methodologies to document the horrors within, melding feminist compassion with modern scientific approaches to reform and…
What They Do to Her, They Do to Us: On Feminism and the Dairy Industry
There are numerous negative effects of dairy on our collective and individual health, our environment, and overall wellbeing. Continue reading →
Leveraging Sexism and Speciseism to Save Birds: Grinnell and Lemon’s Conflicted Conservation Efforts in the Era of Women’s Suffrage
A frustrating reality of women's history in animal rights activism is that many of the greatest leaders of the movement were incredibly inconsistent in their ethical positioning. Francis Power Cobbe, for instance, was a committed meat eater, while Anna Kingsford was not in support of women's suffrage. Not all women in the movement, for that matter, were especially fond of Nonhuman Animals beyond…
Celebrating Lughnasa, Lammas, and a Plant-based Harvest Season
Lughnasa is also sunflower season, and, of course, the sunflower with its vibrant energy and promise of new growth with its ample seeds, has been a long time symbol of veganism. Now is a good time to practice some sunflower magic by eating some seeds at sunset and making a wish. Continue reading →
Sacrificing the Goddess: How Speciesism Undermines Feminist Spirituality
This sacred likeness between goddess and nonhuman, in their estimation, was culturally necessary to support the belief that nonhuman victims willingly sacrificed themselves for their human oppressors and relieve any associated guilt in the suffering it invariably caused. Continue reading →
Multispecies Life, Death, and Reincarnation in Ecofeminist and Pagan Spirituality
Although some ecofeminists, some pagans, and some witches do adopt veganism or perhaps even vegetarianism, most of them do not. Thus, philosophies of cyclical living (and dying), while useful in ecologizing all life on earth--humans included--it can just as easily be used to reinforce existing social hierarchies than to deconstruct them. Continue reading →
Colonialism-Privatism-Speciesism
Nation-states in many regions of the globe were founded and controlled by abled, white male powerholders on Indigenous peoples' and animals' lands. Continue reading →