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 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 Books, Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2012
How many of you read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when you were growing up? The Little House books were one of my favorite parts of childhood. My mom read the books aloud to me and my sister when we were kids and I remember collecting the hardback copies of the books over the course [...]
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Posted in Activism, Animal Studies, Animals, Books on Sep 24th, 2012
Today, our dear friend Karen has her first book review over at Our Hen House. She reviewed What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary by Stephanie Marohn. I haven’t read the book, but I’m interested in doing so after reading Karen’s review. On a similar topic, I [...]
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Posted in Books, fashion, reviews on Sep 3rd, 2012
Just a very quick note today to nudge you over to two guest posts that are out today. One is “Making Eco-fashion for Kids” at The Kind Life. It was a blast putting this post together. The other is a review at Our Hen House of the beautiful book Sanctuary by Sharon Lee Hart. If you [...]
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I had the opportunity about a month ago to read and review an amazing book for Our Hen House—Animals and World Religionsby Lisa Kemmerer (review was posted today). This book in many ways restored my faith in the potential of religion to make social change. When I was growing up, my relationship with religion involved a [...]
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Posted in Books on Jun 11th, 2012
Good morning, Monday readers! I’m writing from hot and sunny California this morning to nudge you over to Our Hen House for another book review —this one about Jim Robertson’s thought provoking book about hunting for sport—Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport. At the end of the review, I’ve asked some questions about [...]
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Just a quick post to let you know that Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight, will be on KUOW radio, which you can listen to right here online. The date and time is this Thursday 8pm PST. If you missed his reading at Elliot Bay Books here [...]
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You may or may not have heard about the May Day events here in Seattle yesterday. May Day is a global day of action and solidarity for worker and immigration rights and there were events planned around the world to peacefully demonstrate in the spirit of social justice. Media coverage, of course, has not focused on the peaceful demonstrations or the politics surrounding labor and [...]
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For this bright and early Monday morning I want to nudge you over to Our Hen House to read another book review by yours truly. This one is a review of Timothy Pachirat’s recent book, Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. If you haven’t read it already, I would highly recommend the [...]
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