Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Animals on Mar 11th, 2013
Morning, readers! At the end of last summer, I went to a number of “livestock” auctions where animals were being auctioned off by the pound for “meat”. I wrote about this experience here on the blog when I had had a little more distance from this one particular auction. But the morning after I attended a ”cull market” [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2013
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” –Lilla Watson, Australian Aboriginal artist/activist I saw this quote posted by a friend on Facebook this morning and it really resonated with me. I’ve [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Children, parenting on Jan 15th, 2013
Continuing the conversation about the choice to have children from Part One, I wanted to write a post specifically about having children and animal activism. I was at a NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) meeting this weekend and one of the speakers asked us to remember that we can all make an effort to be [...]
Posted in Academia, Animal Rights, Animals, Books on Jan 4th, 2013
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses to the post on marriage and childrearing. I’d love to hear more thoughts on this subject from everyone as it can be topic that draws out strong opinions one way or another. And I’ll definitely be posting another post on this topic soon. In the meantime, though, I [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Intersectionality, Social Justice on Dec 18th, 2012
Chocolate is a luxury many of us enjoy quite a lot. For years, I’ve been making a concerted effort to buy ‘Fair Trade Certified’ chocolate, coffee, tea and sugar with the aim of ensuring that producers around the world get a fair wage for the products they grow. Thus, you can imagine my horror when [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Holiday gifts, Uncategorized on Dec 13th, 2012
Since I moved to Seattle and in with Eric, Christmas (and the winter holidays generally) have become fairly non-event kind of events. For one, Eric was raised Jewish and so doesn’t have an attachment to Christmas (or Hannukah, really, for that matter). I grew up celebrating Christmas and we decorated a tree every year and it [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Seattle, Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2012
I’m not sure if you all have been following the explosion of news in the last week about elephants in zoos. The Seattle Times has published in the last week at least 3 articles on the ethics and politics of keeping elephants in zoos. Beginning with the article, “Elephants are Dying out in America’s Zoos” [...]
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Sanctuaries on Dec 5th, 2012
Serenity in the Storm has gotten quite a few new readers in the last few weeks. Welcome to all of those who are new and thanks for reading! To all of you who have been reading all along, thank you for your commitment and interest in the blog and the stories & recipes shared here. [...]
Posted in Activism, Animal Rights, Intersectionality, Politics, Social Justice on Nov 6th, 2012
I hope you all are planning to get out and VOTE today! If you haven’t voted yet, read this later and get your behind to the polls! And I hope you’ll think about equality and justice for all while you’re there. These last few weeks in my “Animals, Ethics, and Food” class, we’ve been talking [...]
Posted in Academia, Activism, Animal Rights, Animal Studies, Events on Oct 12th, 2012
Today we have the pleasure of having Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan from Our Hen House here in Seattle to do a workshop at the University of Washington. It should be a fun and productive conversation! If you’re around and would like to join us, please do! Details here: When: Friday October 12, 2012; 12:00-2:00pm Where: [...]
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