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. 

ARZone Podcast 85: Kim Socha - Animal Liberation and Atheism

Episode 85 features advocate, educator, and author Kim Socha

Kim Socha, who holds a PhD in English Literature and Criticism, is an English professor working in the US. A grassroots animal liberation advocate, Kim is also active in drug policy reform, and transformative justice.

Kim is the author or editor of 4 books relating to animal rights and veganism including her most recent from 2014, Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed. Prof. Socha joined us to speak about that book, in which she makes the case that adherence to any of the world's major religions is antithetical to an animal liberation perspective and practice. Audio podcast, approx. 52 minutes.