Working for social justice includes recognizing how forms of oppression overlap and intersect.
From my first book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, to the release of the updated 35th Anniversary edition, my concern has been to examine and expose oppressive forces while providing a theory for resisting.
Let’s work together to challenge an oppressive world.
Resistance includes being attentive to our daily practices.
As a result, I have also edited and co-edited collections of writings and authored and co-authored books on vegan living.
I know it has engaged, enraged, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with eating animals and masculinity. It’s become an iconic book, referenced in rock songs, feminist artwork and even a Law and Order SVU episode. Published to celebrate the book's 35th anniversary, this Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new introduction that reflects on how recent events continue to prove, sadly, the relevance of the book.
Standing by the Hot Dog in the City, a a 65 foot-long public art installation by the dynamic artist duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw. I loved the opportunity to reflect on “the sexual politics of the hot dog” for Times Square Art. June 2024. As usual, the idea that masculinity might have anything to do with the sculpture prompted disbelief.
Veganism and Cycling? Yes!
The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health, work, competition, transport, and joy, and the issues of animal suffering, environmentalism, and speciesism inherent in veganism—all through lenses of class, race, gender, and disability. Pedaling Resistance illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.
The book provides strategies for conversations, insights into hostile behavior, and tips for dining out and entertaining at home among non-vegans, who, after all, are perfectly happy eating vegan food as long as they don't know that is what they are doing.
The Good It Promises,
T
he Harm It Does:
Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (2023)
Edited by Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen
* First book to critically engage with the dangers of Effective Altruism
* Presents cutting-edge work in an emerging critical domain
* Offers genuinely meaningful social justice strategies
* Centers the voices of activists speaking from where they stand in interconnected social justice movements, with an emphasis on the animal protection movement