Latest Speciesism Podcast Episodes
With Aiyana Goodfellow - REJECTING PETHOOD AND EMBRACING OUR MULTISPECIES WORLD - Episode 38
Thrive Vegan World - February 27, 2022 16:44 - 1 hourWe explore Aiyana's evolution from mainstream vegan activism to their creative projects centring anti-speciesism and collective liberation. Aiyana guides us through some of the concepts and language from her recently published book. In ‘Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our ...
Hiatus
Beyond Species - January 09, 2022 19:18 - 6 minutesI am putting the podcast on hiatus and will be back in 2023. Thanks for all your support so far and to all my guests who have shared their knowledge and experience with us. Number of downloads so far: over 18,000! Tracks used on the podcast: Season 1 theme: https://samwisebeats.bandcamp.com...
With Dr Corey Lee Wrenn - A RATIONAL AND RADICAL APPROACH TO ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISM - Episode 37
Thrive Vegan World - November 20, 2021 18:27 - 1 hourCorey shares her research on the professionalisation of animal rights organisations and how this is detrimental to a radical abolitionist message. We explore the importance of an evidence based focus for effective activism, and why the science backs an interconnected approach. We discuss the...
With Michelle Schwegmann - ETHICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ACTIVISM - Episode 36
Thrive Vegan World - October 29, 2021 16:24 - 1 hourMichelle shares how a passion to spread the animal rights message led her and husband Josh to found Herbivore Clothing and more recently to co-create the animal-free cook book 'Eat Like You Give A Damn'. We hear of the challenges of running a vegan business, including navigating ethical entre...
Just Wondering
Beyond Species - September 25, 2021 13:06 - 1 hourIn this episode, we hear from Just Wondering, a collective of three individuals based in Eastern Europe. M, Mina and Aron. They make animated videos which they describe as “inescapably political and speculative”. I picked some of the video that had really piqued my interest - an impossible choice...
With Marc Bekoff - NURTURING RESPECTFUL RELATIONS WITH OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 35
Thrive Vegan World - September 22, 2021 12:06 - 1 hourExploring how scientific findings on other animal cognition and behaviour can inform our advocacy in the animal liberation movement. We hear insights on how human exceptionalism - 'the rage of inhumanity' - is detrimental to free-living, captive and 'homed' animals, and how we might foster mo...
With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 2 - Episode 34
Thrive Vegan World - August 21, 2021 17:01 - 56 minutesWe discuss the claims that the movement is becoming too human-centred with its focus on diet, health and human experiences of oppression. Carol shares why she believes promoting veganism for health is problematic, and why we are failing other animals if we refuse to use an interconnected appro...
With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 1 - Episode 33
Thrive Vegan World - August 21, 2021 16:25 - 59 minutesCarol discusses some of the themes of her revolutionary book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, including the inextricable link between misogyny and speciesism. We explore how understanding masculinity and meat, feminised protein and the function of the 'absent referent' is so important to dismantlin...
With pattrice jones - CARE, CONTEXT & INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE PURSUIT OF ANIMAL LIBERATION - Episode 32
Thrive Vegan World - July 21, 2021 13:33 - 1 hourpattrice shares her journey from her early activism in the LGBTQ+ and antiracist movements to educating on social justice issues and co-founding VINE Sanctuary. We explore why pattrice advocates a contextual & interconnected approach to animal liberation through the lens of a failed campaign t...
Radical Animism, Language and Agency
Beyond Species - July 05, 2021 20:27 - 55 minutesEpisode 34. In this episode, we hear from Jemma, about her concept of radical animism and book of the same name. We begin with Jemma’s current studies of fungi and what we humans can learn from it. Jemma then expands on some of the themes of Radical Animism – including the 4 blows to human narcis...
The Psychology of the Meat Paradox
Beyond Species - June 11, 2021 11:41 - 1 hourEpisode 33. In this episode, we hear from Rebecca, whose research at Lancaster University takes a closer look at the meat paradox. Rebecca explains some of the psychological mechanisms people use to justify their meat eating. Rebecca’s research investigates meat reduction strategies and highlight...
With Lynda M Korimboccus - THE PEPPA PIG PARADOX - CONFRONTING SOCIALISED SPECIESISM - Episode 31
Thrive Vegan World - June 06, 2021 21:27 - 1 hourExploring Lynda's recent paper, The Peppa Pig Paradox, and how children are socialised into loving other animals whilst learning to normalise their use and consumption. Given the powerful social forces at play, we consider how we can start to break the cycle of conditioning to create a new nar...
With Kristof Dhont - WHY WE LOVE AND EXPLOIT OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 30
Thrive Vegan World - May 15, 2021 19:36 - 1 hourWe hear about Kristof's research into the psychology of human-animal relations and how Social Dominance Orientation and Right Wing Authoritarianism influence oppressive behaviours, including speciesism. We explore through a psychological lens why, despite powerful socialisation, some individua...
With Mylan Engel Jr - MAKING ETHICAL CONNECTIONS FOR ANIMAL JUSTICE - Episode 29
Thrive Vegan World - May 02, 2021 21:56 - 1 hourMylan shares his journey from an upbringing in a family of hunters and pig farmers to philosophy professor and ethical vegan. We explore the importance of morality in achieving social change, and whether an understanding of 'rights based' theory is necessary for effective advocacy. We hear...
With Maria Ioannidou - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN RELATIONS WITH OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 28
Thrive Vegan World - April 18, 2021 18:30 - 1 hourWe explore the psychology of speciesism. How are we able to use, kill and consume some other animals whilst claiming to love others? Many people are upset by what happens in the animal use industries, yet they don’t change their behaviour. How can we explain this? What stops vegetarians and pesc...
Activism in Colombia
Beyond Species - March 18, 2021 22:32 - 1 hourEpisode 32. In this episode, we hear from Fernando. Fernando explains some of the difficulties of pushing animal rights activism forward in Colombia. Issues around land ownership, a history of colonialism, war, poverty and trauma interconnect to create a challenging landscape. In a country where ...
Neurodiversity, Unlearning & Liberation
Beyond Species - February 28, 2021 20:47 - 1 hourEpisode 31. In this episode, we hear from Marc. Marc explains how the animal liberation movement can become more accessible to and benefit from neurodiversity. He expands on some of the obstacles neurodivergent people are presented with by our ableist society and how activists can support and lea...
With Louise Ryan - REBELS, RAIDS AND ESCAPADES - STORIES OF A LIFE-LONG ACTIVIST - Episode 27
Thrive Vegan World - February 27, 2021 18:42 - 1 hourLouise paints a colourful picture (including a garlic devotee supply teacher and a hair raising experience at the Boar's Head pub) of her path to becoming vegan and an animal rights activist. From her innate connection to other animals as a child, to her entry into radical activism as a teenager...
Second Wave Animal Ethics
Beyond Species - February 17, 2021 01:00 - 1 hourEpisode 30. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Iyan Offor. Iyan’s article “Second Wave Animal Ethics” proposes a move away from the rights-based liberal tradition of animal ethics that focuses heavily on nonhuman sentience and similarity. Iyan thinks the animal liberation movement is at a stage wh...
With Mel Broughton - SPEAK UP AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING - Anniversary Episode 26
Thrive Vegan World - February 04, 2021 20:31 - 1 hourMarking the podcast's anniversary with a subject that was my, and my guest's, entry into the Animal Rights movement. Mel Broughton has been at the heart of campaigning for the abolition of animal testing for 4 decades. This dedication has not come without a price. Mel has served time both in ...
With Pamela Nova - ANIMAL JUSTICE EMERGENCY - Episode 25
Thrive Vegan World - January 24, 2021 18:10 - 1 hourExploring: How a wealth of investigative journalism, human rights and environmental activism informed Pamela's animal rights activism. The complex entanglements of oppression and neoliberalism, and the struggle for huge systemic change. The importance of language in challenging the dominan...
Imagining Multispecies Worlds
Beyond Species - January 23, 2021 19:00 - 1 hourEpisode 29. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Michelle Westerlaken. Michelle explains her concept of multispecies-isms or multispecies worlding – a response to speciesism that looks for traces of how we humans interact with other species in our everyday lives, so as to imagine how relationships m...
Multispecies Kinship, Dogs & Racism
Beyond Species - January 17, 2021 19:21 - 50 minutesEpisode 28. In this episode, we hear from Maythe, whose studies in multispecies kinship focus on the relationships humans have with dogs. Maythe shares information about an ethnographic study of dog lovers who perpetuate racism, particularly with regard to events around 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...
With Jennifer Faust - THE ART OF LIVING VEGAN - Episode 24
Thrive Vegan World - January 07, 2021 20:45 - 51 minutesExploring: Jennifer’s vegan ‘awakening’ and a calling to advocate for our fellow animals. Art as activism to deliver a strong animal rights & vegan message. How humour in our advocacy can help us reach non vegans, and be a life saving stress release. The trauma of our exposure to graphic...
With Lynn Sawyer - AN ACTIVIST'S TALES OF RESOLVE & RESILIENCE - Episode 23
Thrive Vegan World - December 16, 2020 21:25 - 1 hourExploring: How Lynn's background in farming and hunting led her to animal rights activism and veganism. The importance of trust and support between activists for resilient individuals and a sustainable movement. Individual empowerment and self-reliance for effective, non-hierarchical activ...
With Clare Mann - NAVIGATING RELATIONSHIPS - Episode 22
Thrive Vegan World - December 09, 2020 17:14 - 1 hourWelcoming back vegan psychologist, Clare Mann, to explore how we can better navigate the relational challenges we face in our daily lives as vegans and animal rights advocates. Looking at ways to improve all our relationships including: - -the one with ourselves - the importance of self care...
With Tom Gale-Batten - BECOMING ALLIES FOR LIBERATION - Episode 21
Thrive Vegan World - November 28, 2020 13:18 - 1 hourExploring: Tom's evolution within activism from organiser of an Anonymous for the Voiceless chapter, to co-founding grassroots group Surrey Animal Liberation Alliance. Taking animal rights advocacy to the younger generations through educative school talks. How Tom's counselling experience ...
Growing Through Activism
Beyond Species - November 25, 2020 19:31 - 1 hourEpisode 27. In this episode, we hear from Vallary. Vallary shares her experiences of mainstream vegan activism - both how she came into the movement and how she broke away from it. Vallary challenged the dominant narrative within the movement, sometimes directly with the organisations she saw as ...
Together Against Interconnected Oppression
Beyond Species - November 02, 2020 14:38 - 45 minutesEpisode 26. In this episode, we hear from India, who explains some of the ideas and aims behind the Vegan Rainbow Project. We hear about the importance of building an inclusive vegan movement which explores the interconnections of oppression and builds alliances with other social justice movement...
With The Animal Rights Show Team - LIFE THROUGH A VEGAN LENS - World Vegan Day Special Part 2 - Episode 20
Thrive Vegan World - November 01, 2020 05:00 - 38 minutesExploring: The team's personal visions for a vegan world, and why trying to end cruelty to other animals will not bring us closer to this. How the Animal Rights Show intends to bring more 'rights-based rights' to the movement, and empower individuals to advocate for respect and justice for o...