Resources
This is a collection of links to various third-party resources that I've found useful or interesting - including academic articles, blog posts, books, podcasts, and videos.
Please get in touch if you have any suggestions of additional resources that you think I might like to include.
Animal advocates are often prone to compare the struggle for animal rights with other social justice issues. We love to explain the parallels between sexism and speciecism, or compare animal farming with slavery. To what extent are these…
Dismantling white veganism (Vegan Voices of Color)
Veganism in and of itself is the practice of abstaining from the use and exploitation of animals as far as practical. Veganism rejects the mainstream narrative that animals are here for us to use in whatever way we choose, from dietary…
Diversity in animal advocacy media (Faunalytics)
Animal advocacy is most often represented by certain media as white, female, and thin. Where's the diversity?
How can we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into the animal advocacy movement? (Animal Charity Evaluators)
At Animal Charity Evaluators, our focus is on identifying the most effective ways to help animals. To follow through with this mandate, we believe it is necessary for the animal advocacy movement to engage larger portions of the population…
Interview with Aryenish Birdie (Animal Charity Evaluators)
Aryenish Birdie is founder and executive director of Encompass. Prior to Encompass, Birdie was a federal lobbyist at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. She was part of a four-woman team instrumental in reforming the Toxic…