Kim Socha discusses her new book, “Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation”
“This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists.” The interview introduces many of the book’s themes, focusing particularly on...
Happy Herbivore Lindsay Nixon, The Eyes of Thailand update, and Niagara’s first VegFest!
This week’s first guest is Lindsay Nixon, the Happy Herbivore. Lindsay has amassed a loyal following with her blog and two cookbooks full of low-fat vegan recipes. Her second book, Everyday Happy Herbivore, took a back-to-basics approach necessitated by her move from New York City to a small Caribbean island. Her upcoming book, The Happy...
Human, Animal, and Environmental Well-Being: Connecting the Dots with Ashley Maier / Welcome Back, Otter? Jason Lutterman on why California’s No-Otter Zone should be abolished
This instalment of Animal Voices presents two interviews you won’t want to miss. First, Ashley Maier tells us how her work with victims of gendered violence led her to realize that a mindset of entitlement underlies most injustices: “Me and those like me are better and more important than others. Our feelings, wants, needs, desires, and...
Getting “Vegucated” with film writer/director/editor Marisa Miller Wolfson
Marisa Miller Wolfson discusses the inspiration for and making of Vegucated, a first-of-its-kind documentary that follows a trio of carnivorous New Yorkers through the process of becoming vegan. Wolfson, a longtime vegan and veteran food activist, describes the incredible seven-year process of making the film, during which she discovered how very complex and costly documentary...
Highlights from the 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies, Part II
The second of two shows devoted to the 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies, this show features live recordings of three presentations. In “The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?”, Carol Glasser relates how she analyzed decades of news articles and Peter Young’s catalog of direct actions, hoping to settle...
Highlights from the 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies, Part I
The first of two shows devoted to the 11th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies, this show features live recordings of three presentations. In “This Little Piggy Went to Market: Animal Life and Death in Pork Industry Rhetoric”, Jan Dutkiewicz describes how the pork industry uses rhetoric to objectify pigs and deny responsibility...
We Are Family: Diana Goodrich Introduces Us to the Residents of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
Diana Goodrich tells us about her journey from starting out as a psychology student studying human-chimpanzee communication to her current role as Director of Outreach for Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. She introduces us to the seven residents of the sanctuary, describing the day she met them in the dark basement of a research facility in northern...
Undercover Investigation: Inside a U.K. Pig Farm with Animal Equality’s Laura Gough
Animal Voices speaks with Laura Gough of Animal Equality about their recent undercover investigation of a pig farm in Norfolk, U.K. The routine brutality seen in the footage gathered over two months is shocking. So too is the revelation that the randomly-chosen farm boasted the “Red Tractor” symbol, supposedly awarded to U.K. farms that adhere to high animal welfare standards....
Feminist Tools for Total Liberation: Exploring Commonalities of Oppression with Jennifer Cox
At the top of the hour, we connect with Ashkon Hobooti to hear about the 4th annual Vegan Rock, which will happen at The Boat in the Kensington Market on February 23rd. Come listen to “happy, fun, upbeat” music from an all-vegan lineup of musicians — Dream Awake, Stefi Beck, Matt Zadkovich, and Hobooti himself — and indulge...
Lil’ Drac Rocks!: Bat Chat with Amanda Lollar
Animal Voices is happy to welcome back Amanda Lollar, founder and president of Bat World Sanctuary, a non-profit, volunteer run organization which has also built a network of Bat Rescue and Education Centers all over the US. Founded in 1994, Bat World Sanctuary has been a permanent refuge for bats used in research, “retired” from zoos, orphaned, permanently injured or confiscated from...
MAD Update, SLAPP Lawsuits, and the 2012 North American Critical Animal Studies Conference
Dylan Powell is back on the show to not only give us an update on the Marineland Animal Defense campaign but to also talk about the ways that MAD and Shark Allies Niagara have dealt with the threat of SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). An important conversation considering the current climate of repression to...
The Eyes of Thailand: Windy Borman tells the stories of landmine survivors, Mosha and Motala
Today’s show is inspired by to two very courageous Asian Elephants; 6-year old Mosha and 50-year old Motala. After losing their legs from landmine accidents, Mosha and Motala were given a second chance to walk again thanks to the efforts of Soraida Salwala, founder of Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand. To talk about “The Eyes of Thailand”, a...
