With Lynn Sawyer - AN ACTIVIST'S TALES OF RESOLVE & RESILIENCE - Episode 23
Release Date: 12/16/2020
Thrive Vegan World
We explore Aiyana's evolution from mainstream vegan activism to their creative projects centring anti-speciesism and collective liberation. Aiyana guides us through some of the concepts and language from her recently published book. In ‘Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World’, Aiyana offers a theory and praxis of how we can develop more respectful relationships with others through an anti-speciesist lens, with particular focus on individuals he terms as 'colonised into pethood'.
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Corey shares her research on the professionalisation of animal rights organisations and how this is detrimental to a radical abolitionist message.
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Michelle shares how a passion to spread the animal rights message led her and husband Josh to found Herbivore Clothing and more recently to co-create the cook book 'Eat Like You Give A Damn'.
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Exploring how scientific findings on other animal cognition and behaviour can inform our advocacy in the animal liberation movement.
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We discuss the claims that the movement is becoming too human-centred with its focus on diet, health and human experiences of oppression.
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Carol discusses some of the themes of her revolutionary book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, including the inextricable link between misogyny and speciesism. We explore how understanding masculinity and meat, feminised protein and the function of the 'absent referent', is essential to dismantling these interconnected oppressions.
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pattrice shares her journey from her early activism in the LGBTQ+ movement to co-founding VINE Sanctuary.
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Exploring Lynda's recent paper, The Peppa Pig Paradox, and how children are socialised into loving other animals whilst learning to normalise their use and consumption.
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We hear about Kristof's research into the psychology of human-animal relations and how Social Dominance Orientation and Right Wing Authoritarianism influence oppressive behaviours, including speciesism.
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Mylan shares his journey from an upbringing in a family of hunters and pig farmers to ethical vegan.
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How Lynn's background in farming and hunting led her to animal rights activism and veganism.
The importance of trust and support between activists for resilient individuals and a sustainable movement.
Individual empowerment and self-reliance for effective, non-hierarchical activism.
Passing through Lynn's experiences of sabbing, sustaining life changing injuries, and huge personal sacrifice in the name of activism.
CW: Killing of other animals and activists. Activist Trauma. Sexual Abuse.