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Is This What Vegan Looks Like?

Dr. Corey WrennMay 11, 2018July 16, 2018
In the June 2018 issue of Women's Health UK, I was interviewed on the prevailing stereotype of angry vegans that has dominated British media in recent months. In the article, I clarify that, although mostContinue reading
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What is Intersectionality?

Dr. Corey WrennMay 11, 2018September 9, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlrnRkuNVE&t=207s Mainstream theories of social inequality frequently compartmentalize experiences, but inequality rarely works that way in real life. Instead, individuals are comprised of many different identities at once, and these identities will interact with oneContinue reading
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Pussy Grabs Back: How Feminists Bestialized Politics but Failed Nonhuman Animals

Dr. Corey WrennMay 9, 2018August 31, 2020
In an article published with Feminist Media Studies, I explore the symbolic application of animal imagery in America's largest protest to date, the 2017 Million Women March. In the march, women and their allies "bestialized" politicsContinue 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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Animal Abolitionism, a 19th Century Holdover

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 25, 2017December 1, 2018
The desire to totally liberate other animals from human oppression is generally thought a product of late 20th century imagining. In today's capitalistic  movement, activists and organizations scramble to specialize and copyright their particular brandContinue reading
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Dr. Corey Wrenn Featured in Huffington Post on Women in Politics

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 5, 2016November 4, 2016
On November 3, 2016, I was interviewed by The Huffington Post for its story, "The Bizarre History Of Anti-Suffrage Cat Memes: In 100 years, we went from cat memes to grabbing ‘em by the p***y"Continue 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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Project Intersect in Bluestockings

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 11, 2016
While visiting New York City this weekend, I stopped into Bluestockings Bookstore and found Project Intersect for sale! I was beyond thrilled that my little essay on atheism in ecofeminist spaces was tucked away in thisContinue reading
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Upcoming Book Release

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 11, 2015July 28, 2015
I am delighted to announce that my book, A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in late 2015. You can learn more about the project byContinue 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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