Oppressions intersect.
Systemic violence and institutionalized prejudices don’t victimize people in neat little boxes, such as “race” or “sex”.

Highlighted in ELK’s most popular post HERE, Kimberlé Crenshaw identified how we cannot rely on a single category of a lived experience (e.g., being queer, or being chronically ill) to explain something as complicated as oppression.

Any attempt to challenge oppression – through community organizing or personal daily battles – requires solutions that cross boundaries, defy labels and overlap in beautiful, messy ways.

That being understood, ELK has organized this website by keyword topics to make content more accessible. Some resources will appear on multiple pages because it is relevant to both by discussing multiple subjects.

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VEGANS, FREAKS AND ANIMALS
Sunaura Taylor

THE DISABLED BODY AND ANIMAL BODY
Mary Fantaske

RADICAL SELF-CARE IN ANIMAL RIGHTS
Anastasia Yarbrough

ENTANGLED EMPATHY
Lori Gruen

FEMINISM,
ANIMAL LIBERATION
AND RADICAL SOBRIETY
Mya Wolff

ALTERNATE REALITIES

EMBRACING ANIMAL LOVING MADNESS

CHRONICALLY VEGAN

MAKING ANIMAL LIBERATION ACCESSIBLE

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Ableism and mental, physical, emotional (dis)abilities

• Social Justice Project – Ableism
• Disability & Sexuality
  By Mia Mingus
• Queer Vegan Cat Lady
  My name is Allyson, I am a 26 year old Pagan, Vegan, Queer cat lady, suffering from chronic illnesses. I love science fiction, books, Doctor Who, crafts, tattoos, animals, and all manner of geekery!
• Disabled Vegan Chick
  A blog dedicated to being a gluten-free vegan spoonie.
• Chronically Vegan
  Mary. Ethical inclusive vegan. Environmentalist. Feminist. Queer. Cis (she/her pronouns). In 20s. Chronic illness warrior.
• 2012 Queer & Asian Conference
  By Mia Mingus
• animalsanddisability
  Examining the intersections of disability and animal liberation.
• The Eco-Ability Collective
  A collective of academics and activists bridging the gap for social justice between dis-ability, animals, and the environment.
• Fear of Feeling: Trauma and Recovery in the Animal Liberation Movement
  By pattrice jones
• Able-bodied Privilege : Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Learn American Sign Language (ASL)
• Disability Justice Activists Look at “Ways to Maintain Ableism”
• The Icarus Project 
  Envisioning a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of ‘mental illness’ rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.
• Moving Beyond Disablism in Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy
• Home Remodelling
  A guide that hopes to help caregivers and those living with disabilities understand the available federal grants as well as tools that can help create a home that is accessible.

 Spiritual Self-care

• Call to Compassion: Religious Perspectives on Animal Advocacy
  By Lisa Kemmerer and Anthony J. Nocella
• Animals and World Religions
  By Lisa Kemmerer
• Zen Habits
  Finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.
• Decolonizing Yoga
  Where spirituality meets social justice.
• How Do You Define Yourself? 
  By Alan Watts
• moonlitmoth
  yoga and social justice

Privilege, Allyship & Anti-oppressive organizing

• Allyship & Solidarity Guidelines
  Interview with Harsha Walia
• Anti-Oppression Facilitation Guide, Resource Zine, Spring, 2014
  ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)
• 4 Ways to Push Back Against Your Privilege
  By Mia McKenzie
• Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable
  By Ngọc Loan Trần
• HeteroPatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing
  By Andrea Smith
• SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY! A zine on anti-oppression, allyship, and being a less shitty person
• Ally Bill of Responsibilities 
  By Dr. Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe
• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally-Industrial Complex
• The Anti Oppression Network
  A community collective dedicated to helping individuals, community collectives, groups, non profit organizations and society as a whole re-evaluate, unlearn, relearn, and understand, in a deep and meaningful way, the importance of decolonization and anti-oppression principles and policy. We are interested in building self-capacity in order to fully support and utilize privileges in the best interest of marginalized beings and mother earth.
• ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)
  AORTA is a collective of educators devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. AORTA works as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community-based projects through education, training, and planning. AORTA bases trainings on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.
• No More “Allies”
  By Mia McKenzie
• So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All ‘Allies’ Need to Know
  By Jamie Utt
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally
  By karnythia
• ALLYSHIP
  An active, consistent, and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person of privilege seeks to operate in solidarity with a marginalized group of people
• RECON 2013: BUILDING AN INTER-GENERATIONAL MOVEMENT
• Seeds for Change
  We’re a network of independent activist training co-ops providing training and workshops on group and campaign skills. We support people who want to make our world a better and more sustainable place.
• Training for Change
  Reliable training tools (or activities/exercises), based on our direct education approach, rooted in popular education.
• Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) 
  A national movement-building organization dedicated to harnessing the power of narrative for social change.
• People’s Commission Facilitator’s Manual
  The facilitator’s manual was developed as a guide for leading discussions and classes on immigration security measures, racism, and exclusion.