Kelly Garbato, of Easy Vegan, has written a piece for the AR section of Change. Here’s a bit from the two-part article series, titled “Intersectionality 101: Sexism, Racism, Speciesism, and More“:

“While Western social justice movements are gradually recognizing the importance of intersectionality – for example, by integrating issues of race and racism into feminist theory – the form of discrimination known as speciesism is usually overlooked, if not openly denigrated.” [...]

“Take, for example, modern industrial animal agriculture – factory farming. While all animals (both human and non-) suffer under this system, the females of the species usually experience the most egregious and prolonged abuses: ‘Laying hens‘ are imprisoned in tiny cages just 16″ wide, with three or more of their sisters, and are forced to expel egg after egg – and after a year, their bodies ‘spent,’ all are shipped off to slaughter; ‘dairy cows‘ are kept perpetually pregnant, so that their babies (whom they carry in utero for nine long months, much like human mothers) and their babies’ milk can be stolen from them, the cycle of forced pregnancy and birth and theft and grief continuing until the cow’s body can give no more; female pigs are impregnated with tomorrow’s ‘pork’ dinner, who upon birth they may nurse for three to four weeks – from the confines of gestation crates; and so on and so forth. In all of these instances, the animals’ membership in two marginalized groups – non-human and female – intersect, with tragic results.”

Please read the entire thing here >>

Kelly is one of my favorite writers and she really gets at the heart of issues. She nails it. She explains the intersectionality between feminism and animal rights over and over again in ways that make sense and reach deeper than the average blogger. Some of my favorite recent pieces of hers are:

• When anthropocentrism meets androcentrism: KA-POW!
• On “fur hags” and “f-cking bitches.”
• And round and round we go.

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