Animal Rights

Book Review: Karen Morin, Carceral Spaces, Prisoners and Animals

November 23, 2020

My two biggest research interests–criminal justice and animal rights–come together in Karen Morin’s new book Carceral Spaces, Prisoners and Animals (New York: Routledge, 2018.) Morin, a geographer by discipline, applies

Uncomfortable Telling your Child that Meat Comes from Animals? Don’t Eat Animals

September 13, 2020

I try to be patient with the travails of parenting. Trust me, I have plenty of my own. But massive hypocrisies get my last nerve. See this parenting column from

Nonhumans Suffer In Our Conflicts

August 30, 2020

There is a gorgeous ritual, devised by John Seed and Joanna Macy, known as the Council of All Beings. Participants embody a nonhuman entity or species and speak for it.

Readings in Deep Ecology and Interconnectedness

July 18, 2020

Lately I’ve been thinking about environmental ethics quite a bit. I came to it through noticing patterns and values in vegan and animal rights groups, and partnering with my brilliant

Stretching Compassion to Difficult People: Is Abolitionism Only for People “We” Like?

June 22, 2020

Fifteen years ago, the LGBTQ community in Israel was reeling from a vicious stabbing attack by Yishai Schlissel, an Ultraorthodox Jewish man, at the Gay Pride in Jerusalem, which claimed

A Gift to You on Mother’s Day

May 10, 2020

When I became Río’s mom, my dear friend Sarah and I, in the throes of sleeplessness, milk, and diapers, started an ongoing conversation and bond that stays strong and joyful

Progressive Punitivism in the Animal Protection Movement

September 16, 2019

Juno, the dog from Oregon v. Newcomb. Image courtesy BarkPost. A while ago, I read and commented on Oregon v. Newcomb, a Fourth Amendment case involving animal cruelty charges. The

Facing Criminal Charges to Save Animals, Part V: The Meaning of Doing Time for the Animals

September 9, 2019

Part IPart IIPart IIIPart IV There are lots of interesting cases involving animal welfare, animal rights, and the complicated terrain of animal personhood. But what is unique to the criminal

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