earthling liberation kollective

पेट्रिस जोन्स – पशु,इंटरसेक्शनलिटी, एवं “अधिकार” (Hindi Translation of Animals, Intersectionality, and “Rights”)

यह बात अब हिन्दी में उपलब्ध है। CC – बंद Captioning – नीचे सही पर क्लिक करें, फिर हिन्दी में सेटिंग्स चुनें।  कृपया यह भी नीचे लिखित प्रतिलिपि देखें। This talk is now available in Hindi. Click CC – Closed Captioning – on bottom right, then choose Hindi in Settings.  Please also see the written transcript below. (1:30) मैं यह जानकर इतनी खुश थी कि हम जमीन की मान्यता के साथ शुरू करने वाले हैं…

Animais, Intersetorialidade e da “Direitos” (Portuguese Translation of Animals, Intersectionality, and “Rights”)

Essa conversa está agora disponível em Português (Brasileiro). Clique CC – Closed Caption – na parte inferior direita , em seguida, escolha Português em Configurações. Veja também a transcrição escrita abaixo. This talk is now available in Portuguese (Brazilian). Click CC – Closed Captioning – on bottom right, then choose Portuguese in Settings.  Please also see the written transcript…

Entangled Empathy and Eco-Feminism

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I want to thank everybody for being here and I also want to thank Sarah for the really fabulous land acknowledgment and I wanted to add to the land acknowledgement, that she did so well, that we also be are aware of and paying attention to the original animals that are in our…

Scars of Suffering – Race, Speciesism and Liberation through Creative Writing

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  Thank you for inviting me to participate in this conference and I will actually be talking about “Sistah Vegan”, the anthology but also my new novel, that’s a social fiction novel that comes out at the end of summer 2014 this year.

So the title of my talk is called [In]Visible…

Animals, Children’s Books & the Social Construction of Gender

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I was very interested in both animal studies and gender studies and I was looking for a way that I could put these together, so I chose to do this topic on animals and children’s picture books. In this presentation I will look at the implications for animal rights issues in more…

Masculinity and Violence against Women and Animals

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So I would like to thank, before I start my presentation, I would like to thank Tânia Mara Campos de Almeida, my doctoral supervisor in Brazil. And I would like to thank Lisa Kemmerer, my doctoral supervisor here in the United States. And overall, I would like to thank michael and…

pattrice jones Closing Address of Human Rights are Animal Rights

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This has been mind-blowing, hasn’t it? Alright, so, a round of applause for the organizers.

[Applause]

Alright, so if your brain is anything like mine – although you might hope it’s not, from the way it feels sometimes inside my head – your synapses have just been snapping and making…

WHY human rights are animal rights?

Or, why is our website ‘human rights are animal rights’?

The short answer: Humans are animals (mammals) too, we realize that campaigning against animal oppression means respecting that human animals also need solidarity, love and liberation. More on this here.

The long answer: Oppressions share commonalities. They overlap, they interact, and they can parallel each other. Sometimes they intersect.

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in this very breath, we benefit from and are complicit with oppressive power structures that abuse, exploit, devalue and destroy the lives of humyns, animals and the natural world. these entrenched relationships of violence manifest themselves in blatant examples of direct harm (military, police, prisons) and indirect harm…

2nd BURNING PHOENIXES AWARD WINNER!

we’re so pleased to announce the second award winner of the burning phoenixes goes to:

Zarna Joshi – Seattle, Washington, USA

Zarna is a Climate Justice and Social Justice activist, who works with Women of Color Speak Out. She has been part of Shellno Action Council, Rising Tide Seattle, and Earthship Seattle, and is part of the Break Free campaign of 2016. She is a writer, public speaker,…

1st burning phoenixes award winners!

we’re so pleased to announce the first award winners of the burning phoenixes goes to:

Palestinian Animal League (PAL) – Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank)

The only locally-run animal protection organization in the occupied Palestinian territories, PAL was founded in 2011 by Ahmad Safi. Following the ethos of “helping animals, empowering people”, this organization’s work strives to…

*please read the five point disclaimer here* 🙂

hi again!

so this post is about eating, and how it relates to mental illnesses and disorders. i am aware of how taboo subjects like eating disorders are, but then again so is mental illness & so is animal politics – and neither has stopped me from speaking my mind. so why not mix all of these taboo topics together and see what happens??

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content warning for triggering material, including violence against women, sexual violence, misogyny, child abuse, racism, ableism, transphobia, patriarchy, & violence against animals.

this article was written based upon my professional and unpaid experience working in the areas of family, poverty & disability law, as well as my independent research and participation in local community organizing.