Donald Trump’s campaign built on hate and fear-mongering is a tactic all to familiar to vegan mobilization. This essay identifies the dangers to social justice and social movement stability that Trump veganism presents.
Reading by Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn; music by Lucas Hayes.
This is an installment of Vegan Feminist Network’s podcast series, making popular essays more accessible through audio recording. You can access the original essay by clicking here.
Archives of this podcast can be found here.
In this podcast, Corey examines the personal and community grief associated with the 2016 American election. This episode also identifies a number of important parallels between Trumpism and veganism. Aggravating human inequalities in a hasty and desperate push for change is an ethical concern.
Episode recorded on November 13, 2016.
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Brookings Institute | “What a Trump presidency means for U.S. and global climate policy”
MSNBC | “Michael Moore joins wide-ranging election talk”
Public Radio International | “Gloria Steinem says Donald Trump won’t be her president”
Saturday Night Live | “Election Night”
Vegan Feminist Network | “Why Trump Veganism Must Go”
Vegan Feminist Network | “LUSH Cosmetics: Kind(ish) to Animals, Not to Women“
In this podcast, Corey and Brian liberate a can of worms in discussing the many important overlaps and disconnects between socialist activism and veganism. Despite the relevance of Marxist critique, it seems that ideologies have gotten the better of us.
This episode is not safe for work (contains cursing).
Episode recorded on September 24, 2016.
Alexander Simon – “Against Trophy Hunting: A Marxian-Leopoldian Critique” Monthly Review
White feminism prioritizes the interests of relatively privileged women with the expectation that their gains, more easily won, will trickle down to more marginalized women. The Nonhuman Animal rights movement demonstrates this problematic tactic as well, frequently to the exclusion of vegan outreach and to the detriment of the most marginalized of species.
Reading by Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn; music by Lucas Hayes.
This is an installment of Vegan Feminist Network’s podcast series, making popular essays more accessible through audio recording. You can access the original essay by clicking here.
Archives of this podcast can be found here.
In this podcast, Corey and Brian rant about vegan travel, picky eaters, encounters with forest-dwelling Tofurky bandits, and the sexual politics of vegan food apps.
This episode is not safe for work (contains cursing).
Episode recorded on September 3, 2016.
Corey and Brian return with our second podcast of the series to discuss recent racial turmoil in online spaces of the Nonhuman Animal rights movement. What does it mean when white activists insist that “All Lives Matter” or that “Black lives matter, too“? This episode challenges the white-centric status quo of the movement, white entitlement to leadership, and white opposition to intersectional approaches.
This episode is not safe for work (contains cursing).
Episode recorded on July 27, 2016.
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