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Tag: Colonialism

Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 21, 2018December 7, 2018
  Postcolonial Ireland entered the 20th century as a newly minted nation-state hoping to establish itself as a legitimate competitor in the capitalist world system. Having been subjugated under colonial animal agriculture for over fourContinue reading
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Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018
In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue reading
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Are Teddy Bears Vegan? President Roosevelt and the SPCA

Dr. Corey WrennMay 15, 2017December 7, 2018
Speciesism, like any ideology of oppression, is effective in its banality. Consider the "teddy bear." Have you ever stopped to consider its origin? It is not so cuddly as you might imagine. Teddy bears traceContinue reading
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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018
The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading
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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019
But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy?  Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading
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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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Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and sc Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and schlepped through the heat to the beach which was too hot and too busy, so I spent my evening reading radical feminist theory on the roof of my hotel. Some interesting talks today. I keynote tomorrow on my forthcoming book, Vegan Feminism. 🫠☀️
Day one in Barcelona. My third time visiting and s Day one in Barcelona. My third time visiting and still surprised by all the vegans!!! I loaded up on gazpacho 🤤 and fake hams...resisting the instinct to check ingredients, as this market was 100% vegan!
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Dreams come TRUE at the Canterbury vegan market... Dreams come TRUE at the Canterbury vegan market...these are just some of the stalls!
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Foie gras campaigning demonstrates the inherent mi Foie gras campaigning demonstrates the inherent misogyny that undergirds so much of animal advocacy--this needs to change.

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I'll be speaking in Ashford tonight on vegan femin I'll be speaking in Ashford tonight on vegan feminism...with Mishka!
If you are in the area, I will be giving an inform If you are in the area, I will be giving an informal talk on my forthcoming book on vegan feminism!
Mishka was born with some disability in their feet Mishka was born with some disability in their feet, long journeys often require a pram, a pouch, or a lil sunbathing in repose (pictured here)
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