Media Representations

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

A Critique of Open Rescues

A History of The Vegan Society

Appropriating Anti-Slavery Abolitionism in Anti-Speciesism Claimsmaking

Are Animal Crackers Vegan?

Are Teddy Bears Vegan? President Roosevelt and the SPCA

Could Fat-Shaming and Health-Shaming Encourage Veganism?

Derren Does Dairy: When Skepticism Fails Veganism

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

Explorers Race to the Poles, Animals Lose

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

Ghost Stories Tell Us a Lot about Animals in Human Society

How Dawn Saves Wildlife While Killing Other Animals En Masse

Is This What Vegan Looks Like?

It’s Like, Totally Sexist

Mainstreaming Veganism: Full Interview with Imagine5

Medicalizing Animal Rights

Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits

Pussy Grabs Back: How Feminists Bestialized Politics but Failed Nonhuman Animals

New Package, Same Old Problem: Animal Crackers and Veganism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Sexism in Animal Advocacy: The Case of Foie Gras

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

Society Writings: Veganism Made Real in Print

Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists

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

The Thug Kitchen Cookbook and the Problem of Vegan Blackface

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

World Vegan Month Series 2018: Social Psychology

Can You Read Yourself Vegan?

Prosocial Media Modeling

Vividness Doesn’t Persuade

World Vegan Month Series 2017: Social Psychology

Dissemination Channels

Fear-Framed Persuasion

Mere Exposure Effect

World Vegan Month Series 2016: Vegan Research

Readability of Vegan Outreach Literature

Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment

The Significance of Animal Suffering

V-Rated: Sexualization as a Mechanism of Food Justice Depoliticization

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. 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 is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. 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), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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