Essays – Page 16 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 21, 2016January 11, 2019

A study published in Psychological Science finds that women who self-objectify are less likely to challenge the status quo of gender inequality. These findings could have serious implications for the Nonhuman Animal rights repertoire. Anti-speciesism activism, in general, supportsContinue reading

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Is Nudity a Prerequisite for Vegan Women’s Strength?

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 30, 2016December 21, 2018

On International Women's Day, PETA reaffirmed in a March, 2013 blog post (since deleted) that strong women in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement are those who pose naked and sexualized for the presumed male audience. According toContinue reading

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Selling Cancer to Beat Cancer? When Nonvegan Foods Go Pink for Profit

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 24, 2016January 4, 2019

Vegan theory acknowledges not only the systematic violence imposed on vulnerable Nonhuman Animals but also the tendency for this oppression to intersect with the suffering of vulnerable humans. One such instance occurs in the pink ribbon "findContinue reading

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What Black Lives Matter Can Teach White Vegans

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 12, 2016September 9, 2018

Content Warning: Post discusses racism, sexism, and a number of other forms of discrimination, as well as the Nonhuman Animal rights movement's protection of discriminatory attitudes and tactics. This is a story about symbols and solidarity. ItContinue reading

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Unnecessarily Gendered Vegan Food

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 10, 2016January 26, 2019

"Organic Girl Good Clean Greens," because only women eat organic? Perhaps because it challenges a controlling and hierarchical relationship with the environment, organic consumption and food products are often feminized. Men dominate the environment, forceContinue reading

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PETA & Papa John’s Team Up Against Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJune 30, 2016December 30, 2018

In 2013, PETA announced that it has been purchasing stock in American pizza chain Papa John's with the hope of leveraging this ownership to influence policy changes. This should concern animal allies, as grants and donationsContinue reading

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If You Care about Animals, In-Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

Dr. Corey WrennMay 30, 2016December 21, 2018

Posed as the perfect neoliberal solution to relieving speciesism while protecting markets and consumer desires, a number of non-profits have positioned themselves in support of in vitro research in pursuit of "lab grown meat." However,Continue reading

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Rebuilding and Reusing Rescue Dogs

Dr. Corey WrennMay 22, 2016January 4, 2019

Anti-speciesism theorist Norm Phelps once noted that cat and dog "overpopulation" is a product of capitalism. That is, human society breeds these animals as designer products for purchase. The capitalist system relies on constant productionContinue reading

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Should We Promote Veganism or Meet People Where They Are?

Dr. Corey WrennApril 6, 2016April 6, 2016

In my research, I have uncovered that many large non-profits in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement spend considerable effort invisibilizing, dismissing, or vilifying radical vegan activism. Consider this Vegan Outreach newsletter excerpt as an example: In theContinue reading

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What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

Dr. Corey WrennApril 4, 2016September 3, 2018

In this essay, I will deconstruct what people really mean when they pull on what Michele Kaplan calls, "The Urgency." The urgency of Nonhuman Animal suffering ("RIGHT NOW!") is exploited as a diversion tactic: no timeContinue 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).