Showing posts with label animalrights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animalrights. Show all posts

Saturday, April 29, 2017

ARZone Intersectionality Interview 25 - Dr. Kim Socha

Episode 25 features special guest, Dr. Kim Socha. Kim holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches writing and literature at a community college. Her publications include "Animal Liberation and Atheism” and "Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde". 
She is also contributing editor of "Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation" and "Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism." 

Kim frequently publishes articles and chapters on intersectional social justice, and her work has been translated into German and Spanish. She is regularly invited to speak on her scholarship and activism. As an activist, Kim organizes with Minnesota Animal Liberation and Progress for Science. She also volunteer teaches English to immigrants and refugees from Africa and Central America.

To read the blog post Kim spoke about in the interview, Show Up and Shut Up: White Animal Activists and the Racial Justice Movement, please click HERE 


To listen to the interview, please click HERE or use the player below. 


Wednesday, March 8, 2017

ARZone Intersectionality Interview 22 - Julia Feliz

Episode 22 features intersectional vegan activist and author, Julia Feliz.

Julia is an intersectional vegan, an artist and the author of the first ever vegan themed board book for babies and toddlers, Libby Finds Vegan Sanctuary.

Julia runs The Vegan Craftivist Project, which advocates on behalf of other animals through craft, and recently became president of a Swiss based association, Solidarity for Humanity, which aims to provide a platform for marginalized communities, as well as lead US Americans abroad to best fight against oppression.  


Julia has been an ethical vegan since 2008, and is now also a mother who enjoys creating art for her young children and colouring by their side.

To listen to the interview, please click HERE