Roosters, emus, ducks, and pigeons flutter through the pages of this engaging and accessible collection of quirky essays by a feminist activist and scholar writing from the grounds of an animal sanctuary founded by LGBTQ people with disabilities. Topics include ableism, activism, anarchism, animal liberation, capitalism, climate change, consciousness, direct action, ecofeminism, emotion, eros, imagination, identity, language, logic, psychology, queerness, racism, sexism, speciesism, surrealism, systems thinking, veganism, and wildlife. Readers will learn about and from birds and other animals, encountering sometimes surprising intersections among the sources of social and environmental problems. Most importantly, readers will will end this whirlwind tour of "other-wise" ideas more in tune with the natural world and better able to understand and solve problems caused by human error.
Roosters, emus, ducks, and pigeons flutter through the pages of this engaging and accessible collection of quirky essays by a feminist activist and scholar writing from the grounds of an animal sanctuary founded by LGBTQ people with disabilities. Topics include ableism, activism, anarchism, animal liberation, capitalism, climate change, consciousness, direct action, ecofeminism, emotion, eros, imagination, identity, language, logic, psychology, queerness, racism, sexism, speciesism, surrealism, systems thinking, veganism, and wildlife. Readers will learn about and from birds and other animals, encountering sometimes surprising intersections among the sources of social and environmental problems. Most importantly, readers will will end this whirlwind tour of "other-wise" ideas more in tune with the natural world and better able to understand and solve problems caused by human error.
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pattrice jones is a co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-led refuge for farmed animals. A former tenant organizer and anti-racist educator, jones has accumulated more than 40 years of activist experience in peace and justice movements, practicing diverse tactics and organizing unlikely coalitions along the way. As an AIDS activist in the 1990s, jones began writing short pieces with a practical focus on how different forms of social injustice interact, and has extended those analyses to include the the injustices facing larger-than-human world since VINE's founding in 2000. An internationally recognized ecofeminist theorist, jones has taught college and university courses on the theory and praxis of social change activism as well as on linkages among different forms of injustice. Trained as a clinical psychologist, jones brings heart, mind, rigor, and candor to the challenging questions facing 21st century social movements.
