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  • 28. Veganism in an Oppressive World with Julia Feliz-Brueck
    Rundown
    This week Marine interviews Julia Feliz-Brueck about her consistently anti-oppression vegan activism. Julia is a decade-long vegan, a mother of two, a scientist, and a published author and illustrator. She is also the founder of Sanctuary Publishers (sanctuarypublishers.com), a vegan book publisher that gives back to marginalized communities with every book sold. Published under the Sanctuary Publishers label, sales from Julia’s most recent books, The Baby and Toddler Vegan Feeding Guide and Veganism in an Oppressive World, help support the work of Chilis on Wheels, an organization that helps to feed the homeless with vegan meals, and the Food Empowerment Project. Julia is also the founder of VeganismOfColor.com and co-writer of the Vegan Bill for Consistent Anti-Oppression (ConsistentAntiOppression.com). In this interview, Julia talks about her experience as a neurodivergent vegan of colour to bring attention to the ableism and white-centrism within the mainstream vegan movement.
    Sources and Links
    Websites
    Vegan Bill of Consistent Anti-Oppression: ConsistentAntiOppression.Com
    This Bill outlines and explains the steps towards evolving into an effective and successful vegan movement that centers nonhuman animals.
    Veganism of Color: VeganismOfColor.Com
    Use this site as a tool to learn about veganism of color, to use when addressing People of Color to point them towards their own communities, and to learn details on Vegans of Color that you should support to help veganism reach People of Color.
    New Pride Flag: NewPrideFlag.com
    LGBTQIA of Color are more likely to identify as LGBTQIA and are twice as likely to be targeted by homophobia while Trans Black Women are disproportionately targeted and murdered at the highest rate from anyone else in the LGBTQIA community. This new pride flag hopes to remind the movement of its history, which was started by Trans Black and Brown women like Marsha P. Johnson. The flag also hopes to raise the voices of Trans and Queer PoC, as well as raise awareness of the need to center those most marginalized within the movement. We all benefit when we help address root issues, understand interconnections, and work to help those most afflicted in our communities. The flag is free to download on the site.
    Books
    Available on Amazon, Major Booksellers, or SanctuaryPublishers.Com/Shop
    Veganism in an Oppressive World by Julia Feliz Brueck
    ISBN-13: 978-0998994611
    A step by step guide on understanding veganism in an oppressive world in the words of Vegans of Color around the globe and how to navigate it to best focus efforts that actually benefit nonhuman animals
    Food Justice: A Primer by Saryta Rodriguez
    ISBN-13: 978-0998994635
    A book which helps bridge Food Justice issues and Animal Rights issues in a way that exemplifies how they are interconnected and reliant on one another.
    For babies and toddlers:
    Wild and Free by Andrea Zimmer and Julia Feliz
    ISBN-13: 978-0998994642
    This hardcover children’s book helps children understand the wrong versus right dichotomy of speciesism and sets veganism/anti-speciesism as a social justice movement that is part of working towards human and nonhuman liberation through catchy rhymes and colorful images.
    Coming soon in 2019
    Veganism of Color: Decentering Whiteness in Human and Non-Human Liberation
    A Vegans of Color Community Project edited by Julia Feliz Brueck
    Articles
    Racialized Speciesism by Julia Feliz on Medium: https://medium.com/@jd.feliz/racialized-speciesism-991eb3653ba0
    42 min
  • 27. Will Geoengineering Save Us?
    Rundown
    In this episode, Mexie explores what geoengineering can (and can’t) provide in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation. She outlines various options in the two main geoengineering categories: Carbon Dioxide Removal (removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) and Solar Radiation Management (reducing the amount of solar radiation that hits the earth’s surface). The options in the first category are safer than the options in the latter, however each comes with serious risk. Geoengineering has been gaining traction with the release of the latest IPCC report, but could a geoengineered world be even more dystopian than a 4-6C temperature increase?
    Sources and Links
    * Aaron Byrd and Sofia Perpetua, How it Happens – Carbon Capture: https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002990028/how-it-happens-carbon-capture.html
    * Jan Christoph Minx and Gregory Nemet, The Inconvenient Truth About Carbon Capture: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/05/31/carbon-capture/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9ab0e07ee02d
    * James Temple, The Carbon Capture Era May Finally Be Starting: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610296/the-carbon-capture-era-may-finally-be-starting/
    * Climate Vision, The Negatives of Carbon Capture and Storage: http://climatevision.co.uk/the-negatives-of-carbon-capture-and-storage
    * Umair Irfan, Will Carbon Capture and Storage Ever Work?: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-carbon-capture-and-storage-ever-work/
    * Jonathan Watts, Geoengineering May be Used to Combat Global Warming, Experts Say: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/geoengineering-global-warming-ipcc
    * Fiona Harvey, Reflecting the Sun’s Rays Would Cause Crops to Fail, Scientists Warn: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/08/reflecting-suns-rays-would-cause-crops-to-fail-scientists-warn
    * Peter Beaumont, Scientists Suggest a Giant Sunshade in the Sky Could Solve Global Warming: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/05/scientists-suggest-giant-sunshade-in-sky-could-solve-global-warming
    * Rima Sabina Aouf, Five Geoengineering Solutions Proposed to Fight Climate Change: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/18/five-geoengineering-solutions-climate-change-un-ipcc-technology
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    37 min
  • 26. Permaculture for Post-Capitalism with Becky Ellis
    Rundown
    In this episode, Mexie interviews Becky Ellis, a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario and the host of the Permaculture fo the People podcast, about how and why permaculture is important for envisioning a sustainable post-capitalist future. Becky explains the fundamentals of permaculture and why the ethics of permaculture are inherently radical. We discuss issues around colonial-capitalist property regimes that both leftist and permaculture movements must address, as well as how permaculture can add to other radical social movements concerned with both human and animal liberation. To thrive in the 21st century, our post-capitalist world-building needs to radically re-envision our relationships to one another as well as to all of the other species in the ecosystems of which we form part.
    Sources and Links
    * Permaculture for the People: https://permacultureforthepeople.org
    * Permaculture for the People Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/permaculture-for-the-people/id1438915815?mt=2
    * P4P facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/permaculturefortheppl/
    * Find Becky on Twitter (@Permacultureppl) and Instagram (@Earthygrrrl)
    * Leanne Simpson, As We Have Always Done: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done
    * Sylvia Federici, Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons: https://btlbooks.com/book/re-enchanting-the-world
    * Heather Jo Flores, Food Not Lawns: http://www.foodnotlawns.com/
    * Starhawk, The Earth Path: https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780060000936/the-earth-path/
    * Trina Moyles, Permaculture of Spermaculture: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/permaculture-or-spermaculture
    * Permaculture Women: https://medium.com/permaculturewomen
    * How to Grow Your Own Food in an RV: https://www.your-rv-lifestyle.com/how-to-grow-your-own-food/
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    1 hr 32 min
  • 25. Why Vegans Should Stop Celebrating India’s Beef Ban with Rama Ganesan
    Rundown
    In this episode, Marine interviews Rama Ganesan on the problematic associations that many vegans make when they hold up India and Hinduism (or even Buddhism and Jainism) as inherently vegetarian/ vegan. Rama also explains why it is counter to vegan values to celebrate India’s beef ban, to use the word “Ahimsa” as a synonym for “vegan”, or even to use quotes from Gandhi to advocate views of compassion and non-discrimination.
    Sources and Links
    * Rama’s presentation slides: https://medium.com/@ramaganesan/these-are-the-slides-from-my-talk-at-vegans-of-color-conference-at-dublin-vegfest-september-23-79626adcde61
    * Rama’s organization, Vegan Michiana: https://veganmichiana.com/
    * Rama’s Facebook page, Anti-Caste Vegan: https://www.facebook.com/Anti-Caste-Vegan-824278461115942/
    * Livestream of the Vegans of Colour Conference in Dublin, 2018: https://www.facebook.com/NARAcampaignsIRELAND/videos/523350941468793/?hc_ref=ARQicw-97ayNS-rJtCbiSRd6tg4WBRRe0Psr3mfRdGg00G4RsnTjUB67qkGNAsHe0y4&__xts__[0]=68.ARBuqk3H_zCTH2zVCJuwJb3uyfsf4ir6eV4tRTapL02IToSR-oZAhMVbpSaVPc0FactXgXNQUw4PjenJJsz27pJ-WRK6TETEYKa2TZU_VOkDg7hH-MtsNkdBaITR6a9OXW3k2tdjjAnacojxsDJwkAyoWidIUkzjPI9Sq0_wJhiStknuqFPT2TXwEAXCtXg2HiDcVPVT90QcrNLI6UUw6ZSL-IfDTF8nsUq_LYbUCGcwB8EE-V9YO3k1OU_22Q&__tn__=FC-R
    Books:
    * Kancha Ilaiah, Why I am not a Hindu, A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy
    * Kancha Ilaiah, Buffalo Nationalism, A Critique of Spiritual Fascism
    * Ed Julia Feliz Brueck, Veganism In an Oppressive World, A Vegans of Color Community Project
    * Kim Socha, Animal Liberation and Atheism, Dismantling the Procrustean Bed
    * D.N. Jha, The Myth of the Holy Cow
    * Sujatha Gidla, Ants Among Elephants, An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
    * Romila Thapar, The Past as Present, Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
    * B.R. Ambedkar, Introduction by Arundhati Roy, Annihilation of Caste
    Articles:
    * Rama Ganesan, Veganism is not Brahminism:  https://medium.com/@ramaganesan/veganism-is-not-brahminism-71ce8f2658a8
    * Rama Ganesan, Vegans demanding to change ancient religions: https://medium.com/@ramaganesan/vegans-demanding-changes-to-ancient-religions-46ded205ff12
    * Dalit Diva – Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Why it is Time to Dump Gandhi: https://medium.com/@dalitdiva/why-it-is-time-to-dump-gandhi-b59c7399fe66
    * Anand Neelakantan, Is India really a spiritual civilization, in New Indian Express Sep 2 2018: www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/voices/2018/sep/02/is-india-really-a-spiritual-civilisation-1865178.html
    * Adrija Bose, Vegetarian India A Myth? Survey Shows Over 70% Indians Eat Non-Veg, Telangana Tops List:
    1 hr 9 min
  • 24. What if Men Weren’t Physically Dominant?

    Rundown In this episode, Mexie and Marine discuss the ways in which sexual dimorphism, which has been exaggerated by millennia of social oppression, is at the root of patriarchy and rape culture, and informs our other oppressive systems like capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy. Drawing on anthropological theory and literary works, we argue that the physical dominance of men is not something purely natural, although as a global society we’ve come to understand it as such. What if women were encouraged, as men are, to bulk up and fight back against any attacker? What would the world look like if the physical power dynamics were flipped? What forms of liberation would that enable; what abuses of power?

    Sources and Links

    * Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624359-king-kong-theory

    * Naomi Alderman, The Power: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power?from_search=true

    * Silvia Federicci, Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403846.Caliban_and_the_Witch?from_search=true * Sylvia Kirchengast, Human Sexual Dimorphism: A Sex and Gender Perspective: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262264342_Human_sexual_dimorphism_-_A_sex_and_gender_perspective * Nora Bouazzouni, Faiminisme: Quand le Sexisme Passe à Table: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36169091-faiminisme

    * Priscille Touraille, Hommes Grands Femmes Petites une Evolution Couteuse. Les régimes de genre comme force sélective de l’adaptation biologique: https://www.amazon.fr/Evolution-Couteuse-s%C3%A9lective-ladaptation-biologique/dp/2735111865

    * Un Podcast à Soi, Un Autre Homme Est Possible: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/un-podcast-%C3%A0-soi-n-8-un-autre-homme-est-possible/id1294224809?i=1000410467992&mt=2 “Vegandale” Research Opportunity

    * Contact Becky Ellis at [email protected]

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    1 min
  • 19. Why Vegans Should Be Leftists
    Rundown Flipping it on ya today! In more than one way. First off, Mexie is solo on this podcast as Marine is focusing on an exciting new IRL endeavour (go Marine!). And secondly, we’re flipping our very first episode, Why Leftists Should Be Vegan,
    1 hr 1 min

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