Antiracism in Animal Advocacy

An honest and compelling set of reflections about why we need to build an antiracist animal advocacy movement--and what it will take for us to do it. --Jeff Sebo, Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy, and Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, New York University I dare you to read this book and tell me that racial justice isn't important in animal advocacy. --Dolores Huerta, labor leader, women's rights, and civil rights activist, co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Acknowledging racism is a problem in the animal advocacy movement is fundamental towards addressing the issue. This collection of essays provides an excellent springboard for white people and their entities to do antiracist work while strengthening the infrastructure of the animal advocacy community. --Omowale Adewale, founder of Black VegFest and co-founder of Grassroots Artists MovEment. An essential series of thoughtful, challenging, and vulnerable essays on the vital role antiracism work can and must play in animal advocacy. This is a must-read for anyone who understands that antiracism is important, but struggles to apply the ideas in a practical way to their work and activism. --Evanna Lynch, Actress and Activist An important, provocative and accessible book. It has an urgent message for us all. --Congressman Jamie Raskin Even as a vegan of 20+ years, I hadn't thought much about the intersection of race, equity, and animal advocacy. Every essay in this collection taught me something. Vital and thought-provoking. --Vu Le, writer of NonprofitAF.com I can tell you that I am encouraging everyone I know and work with to read these essays. To further animal advocacy, we must confront the limitations of a movement that has struggled to address racial equity. --Monica Chen, Executive Director of Factory Farming Awareness Coalition The animal protection movement, just like all advocacy movements, has its own progress to make to represent the global majority, and create a more inclusive movement. This is that powerful and necessary first step towards change. --Jennifer Brown, Advocate and Author, Inclusion (2017) and How to Be an Inclusive Leader (2019) This crucial collection illuminates why racial justice in animal advocacy is imperative if we truly wish to end exploitation and oppression. --David Bronner, Cosmic Engagement Officer (CEO) of Dr. Bronner's Antiracism in Animal Advocacy is at least three critically important things: (1) an honest reckoning of oppression in an anti-oppression movement, (2) a collective call to antiracist action from people across that movement, and (3) a clear vision for what a truly justice-based animal advocacy movement could--and ought--to be. --Paul Gorski, Founder of the Equity Literacy Institute