Read This Immediately. So: cultures that steal land and call it property also consider women and other animals property; cultures that try to disappear the original inhabitants of a continent also try to disappear women and other animals; settler colonialism precipitates heteropatriarchy and speciesism. Actual animal advocates who are actually interested in building coalitions with nations that have been defending the land and the animals on it forever cannot follow Laureen’s schedule. We need to work toward the return of stolen land, now. We need to understand how our messaging can reproduce racist justifications for colonization, and then change our messaging. We need to read some books that aren’t in the animal studies canon.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:36:30 +0000
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