Good morning, Monday readers! Today I want to share a call for papers I’ve been working on with my colleague and friend, Rosemary-Claire Collard — for a Critical Animal Geographies edited scholarly anthology. Please consider submitting an abstract for consideration and it would be great if you could spread the word if you’re so inclined! Call for Contributors to Critical [...]
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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” [...]
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Earlier this week, Melissa (of the lovely blog, Mending Creation) responded to the Academic Writing and Scholar-Activism post with a question about why I chose Geography as my field/discipline. I’ve been feeling particularly positive about Geography lately, so this is a good time to reflect on the choice to do work in this discipline. Bear with me; this is going to be [...]
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Posts have been a bit more infrequent than usual here on the blog because I’ve been writing up a storm in the world of academics and, quite frankly, I’m pooped! Last week I spent intensively working on getting a draft of the paper for my talk this year at the annual geographer’s conference (AAG). Another project I’m [...]
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Posted in Animals, dogs, Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2013
Maizy’s testimony this week reminded me that it’s been a while since I’ve given an update on how things are going with Saoirse. If you’re new to the blog, Saoirse (pronounced SEER-SHA) is a beagle we adopted from a research lab this past fall where she was used for blood draws/transfusions in medical research. When [...]
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“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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Animals, dogs on Dec 24th, 2012
Eric and I spent the weekend in some much-needed relaxation and time at home on the couch with the animals. The quarter is over and my grades are all submitted and Eric has been working hard at work on a number of projects. I think we’ve both been a bit burned out and decided to [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Animals, dogs, Uncategorized on Dec 11th, 2012
This last weekend started out with so much promise. We headed out Saturday morning to Mercer Island dog park for a playdate with Anika, Kirby and Ms. Louise Bubbles. Lou and Maizy were having a great time, going back and forth between the shy dog area, where Saoirse hangs out, and the main dog park [...]
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