Effective Animal Advocacy

Dr. Wrenn’s full list of essays is available here.

Advancing Veganism in a “Post-Vegan Society”: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory

A Critique of Open Rescues

A History of The Vegan Society

The Animal Sentience Bill and Animal Nationalism in Post-Brexit Britain

Appropriating Anti-Slavery Abolitionism in Anti-Speciesism Claimsmaking

Are Vegans too Open to Free-Riders?

A Vegan Feminist Response to Nonhumans First

Can a Meat Tax Advance Animal Rights?

Can Flexitarianism Facilitate a Vegan World? Research Suggests Another Agenda

Can Veganism Save Your Life? I’m Skeptical

Can We “Have Our Cow and Eat Her, Too?”

Could Fat-Shaming and Health-Shaming Encourage Veganism?

Do You Know the Most Common Mistake in Animal Activism?

Eating Vegan vs. Being Vegan: The Vegan Society and Depoliticized Capitalist Campaigning

Fat Vegan Politics: Why Health-Shaming, Body-Policing, and Fat Stigma Hurts Humans and Other Animals

The Fetishization of “Animal-Friendly” Animal Products

Heganism is Sexist

How Do I Positively Engage My Non-Vegan Family?

How Effective is the Vegan Lecture? Exam Scores Tell a Horrifying Story

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

Irish Car Bombs aren’t Cruelty-Free, but Not for the Reasons You Would Expect

Is Nudity a Prerequisite for Vegan Women’s Strength?

Mainstreaming Veganism: Full Interview with Imagine5

Medicalizing Animal Rights

Nearly 1,000 Academics & Professionals in Support of Plant-based Universities

Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

PETA, Dahmer, and Intersectional Failure

PETA & Papa John’s Team Up Against Animals

Peter Singer and the Charity of Western Imperialism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Rape as an Anti-Speciesism Tactic and the Vegan Male Discourse

Research Challenges the Emotionality of Anti-Speciesist Thought

Science was a Founding Principle of the Vegan Movement

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

Shocked or Satiated? Violent Imagery Traumatizes Rather than Motivates Veteran Activists

Should Vegans Be Organ Donors?

Society Writings: Veganism Made Real in Print

Solving Moral Conflicts in a Non-Vegan World

Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

The EU Ban on Cosmetic Testing and the Problem with Single-Issue Campaigns

The “No-Means-Yes” Rape Trope in PETA Pornography

The Nonprofit Bias: Research For Nonprofits By Nonprofits

The Politics of the Pure Vegan Myth

The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Third-Wave Vegan Feminism and Feminist Animal Studies

Veganism “At All Costs” Hurts Animals

What Are You Doing to Help Animals Right NOW?

What Black Lives Matter Can Teach White Vegans

What is Intersectionality?

What is Post-Speciesism?

What’s Wrong with “Carnism”?

When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Factionalism in Animal Rights

Why I’m Giving Beyoncé’s Vegan Campaign a Chance

World Vegan Month Series 2018: Social Psychology

Can You Read Yourself Vegan?

Cognitive Priming

Conformity

Do-Gooder Derogation

Egoism and Helping

Extreme Rituals

Happy People are Helping People

Identification Leads to Empathy

The Illusion of Transparency

Group Size and Aggression

Linked Oppressions

Male Emotional Displays

Meaningful Moments

Moral Licensing

Prosocial Media Modeling

Reality Politics

Segregation

Scripting

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Variety

Vividness Doesn’t Persuade

Whataboutism

World Vegan Month Series 2017: Social Psychology

Age

Bystander Effect

Establishing Credibility

Decision Paralysis

Dissemination Channels

Distraction

Door-in-the-Face

Fear-Framed Persuasion

Fostering Good Feelings

Forewarning

Free-riding

Gendered Helping

Haste

In-group Bias

Just-world Phenomenon

Mere Exposure Effect

Opinion Leaders

Primacy and Recency Effects

Reason and Emotion

Reciprocity Norm

Scripting

Selective Exposure

Social Responsibility Norm

Two-Sided Appeals

World Vegan Month Series 2016: Vegan Research

An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

Identity and Effectiveness

Race as a “Feeble Matter” in Veganism

Readability of Vegan Outreach Literature

Recruiting Strangers and Friends

Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment

Why Civil Resistance Works

Why Feminist-Vegan Now?


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