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Vegan Ethics and the Case for Black Widow Spiders

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 17, 2017February 2, 2019

The ethical conundrum created by human interactions with poisonous species is one that tests the limits of vegan ethics. What is the correct path of action if one should come across a potentially deadly blackContinue reading

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Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 11, 2017January 4, 2019

Covert Capitalism and Western Benevolence A current fad in social justice strategy is the concept of "effective altruism," made popular in vegan circles by wealthy Princeton University professor and "father" of the Nonhuman Animal rightsContinue reading

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A Vegan Feminist Response to Nonhumans First

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 4, 2017December 1, 2018

Content Warning: This post contains graphic descriptions of violent anti-speciesism protests which involve racism, sexual assault, violence against women, and child abuse. The Logic of Non-Humans First! As intersectionality discourse has gained resonance inContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).