Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Animal Defenders against Islamophobia
if your organization for animal defense wishes to sign onto the statement, contact us by following this link here. please know that you are expected to donate a minimum of $5 directly to the victims of the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center shooting or to your local mosque. This is a statement of support from animal defenders everywhere who…
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ELK Update – Art as Activism
perhaps you have noticed, but maybe not… ELK has been quite inactive of late. there are a few different reasons for this, one of which is the focus of this post.
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Animal Defenders in Solidarity with Standing Rock #NoDAPL
if your organization for animal defense wishes to sign onto the statement, contact us by following this link here. please know that you are expected to donate a minimum of $5 directly to the “Stand with Standing Rock” fund (click here) or to Standing Rock’s Legal Support fund (click here). This is a statement of support for…
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Animal Exploitation & Toxic [Trans] Masculinity (Corvus)
Disclaimer: I am transmasculine and identify mostly as a transgender butch or simply transgender. I do not identify as a binary trans man, nor do I have the internal or psychological experience of many binary trans men. Whiteness shapes my experiences, which may not resonate with people of color from otherwise similar gender/class/ability demographics. I…
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Internalized Speciesism
content warning for triggering material, including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, colonialism, transphobia, speciesism, tokenizing & violence against animals. speciesism, the exploitation & abuse of non-human animals by a dominant oppressor on the basis of species membership, is weird. weird like, despite how we humans keep busy discriminating & exploiting animals specifically because they are of different species, we humans…
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Midwifery, Medicine & Baby Food Politics (Claudia Serrato)
This presentation was delivered in 2013 during the first Sistah Vegan Conference, focusing on “Embodied and Critical Perspectives on Veganism by Black Women and Allies”. Follow Sistah Vegan if you want to learn more about these issues. Breeze: This presentation will be given by Claudia Serrato – and Claudia is enrolled at the University of Washington in America…
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لورين أورنلاس – ما وراء النباتية: النظام الغذائي والاستهلاك في عالم شامل (Arabic Translation of Beyond Veganism: Diet & Consumption in a Global World)
To read or watch this in English, click here. To read or watch this in Portuguese, click here. هذا الكلام هو متاح الآن باللغة العربية للفيديو ، انقر فوق CC – التوضيحية – في أسفل اليمين ، ثم اختر العربية في الإعدادات. انظر أيضا نص كتابي أدناه . This talk is now available in Arabic.…
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PeTA and the Trope of “Activism” (Aph Ko)
This presentation was delivered in 2013 during the first Sistah Vegan Conference, focusing on “Embodied and Critical Perspectives on Veganism by Black Women and Allies”. Follow Sistah Vegan if you want to learn more about these issues. Breeze: Our next speaker is Aph Kocięda – I’m hoping I pronounced your last name right. She is a graduate…
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باتريس جونز – حيوانات، تقاطعية، و“حقوق” (Arabic Translation of Animals, Intersectionality, and “Rights”)
To read or watch this in English, click here. To read or watch this in Portuguese, click here. To read or watch this in Hindi, click here. هذا الكلام هو متاح الآن باللغة العربية للفيديو ، انقر فوق CC – التوضيحية – في أسفل اليمين ، ثم اختر العربية في الإعدادات. انظر أيضا نص كتابي…
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Animal Defenders in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter (Toronto)
if your organization for animal defense wishes to sign onto the statement, please contact us by following this link (click here). please know that you are expected to: donate a minimum of $5 directly to the BLM Toronto fund (http://blacklivesmatter.ca/#testimonials) or your nearest local chapter (http://blacklivesmatter.com/find-chapters/), AND/OR make a clear and generous demonstration of support for…
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Join ELK’s Newsletter!
if you want to keep up with elk projects – including upcoming events & new kollectives – then send us your name, location & email address for us to keep you informed. we will keep emails 1-2 a month, and your info will stay absolutely private (not counting the expected nsa snooping, but oh well..) send us…
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Why We Love Pets but not Dumbo
so i had been thinking about the killing of that gorilla they called Harambe – who lived their whole life in zoos, behind cages, as a prisoner of entertainment. there is a lot to unpack about all that, and right now i don’t have enough words to explain how it makes me feel… but it did…
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Activist Framing of the Radical Animal Liberation Movement in North America
WOW! so Earthling Liberation Kollective – ELK, along with Animal Liberation Front & Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation – GOAL Network, were all studied for a thesis on radical animal liberation in north amerika.also mentions Earth First!, Hamilton/Halton Animal Liberation Team – HALT, Kitchener Ontario Animal Liberation Alliance and Marineland Animal Defense (M.A.D.). check it out:…
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Growing an Animal-inclusive Culture of Consent
content warning for triggering material, including violence against women, sexual violence, misogyny, transmisogyny, child abuse, elder abuse, ableism, colonization, transphobia, homophobia, patriarchy, racism & violence against animals. consent is fucking amazing. when used to its full potential, consent is about a relationship of respect & trust dependent upon honest communication and patient expression of wants. part 1.…
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ELK’S DIY: Making Animal Rights Accessible
AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR MAKING ANIMAL ADVOCACY EVENTS ACCESSIBLE – FROM DEMONSTRATIONS TO PRESENTATIONS, BOTH ONLINE AND ON-THE-GROUND [This document includes alt text for all images] This resource manual is available for anyone planning & facilitating an event. It is however written specifically for those involved in animal advocacy and animal defense within the continent…
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5 things Animal Rights can learn from the Black Panther Party
in respect of Black History Month, and the 50th anniversary since the 1966 founding of the Black Panthers Party for Self-Defense, this post is dedicated to commemorating the Black Panthers and what animal defenders can learn from them in 2016. but before you read what i have to say, i’d ask you to please check out…
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ELK’s “Report-Back!” Cash Fund
we are excited to announce our report back! cash-fund, available to applicants wishing to report on radical events for ELK. we are offering modest financial support to help people afford costs to attend an event, on the condition that a detailed report of the event is prepared & sent to us for sharing and signal…
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Why Animal Rights needs Transformative Justice
Transformative Justice for Animal Liberation – ICAS
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Why Animal Rights Fails at Intersectionality
content warning for triggering material, including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, colonialism, transphobia, speciesism, tokenizing & violence against animals. animal rights people love that word, intersectionality. maybe you’ve noticed? it’s a trending term of recent years within animal rights activism culture, popularized as a way to include animal advocacy among other historical-ongoing social justice struggles, as a way to finally be…
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What is Zen Vegan Anarchism?
if i were to describe my spirituality, i would call it zen vegan anarchism. and to be clear from the very beginning, zen vegan anarchism is not a belief system, a political party, a foodie lifestyle, a moral dogma, a code of ethics, a theology doctrine, nor any kind of ideology. as such, i write…
Got any book recommendations?
Earthling Liberation Kollective 