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She also contributed a short essay about race and animal oppression in the first African American Vegan Starter Guide. Society has a very vivid idea of what a "human" is, and as such it can justify anything "below" that as an "animal". any and all discussions that incorporate animals and oppressed humans, especially black people, in the same space are now forbidden at the risk of a collective meltdown. English is my second language and I took one star off because it's a challenging read: the language is academic and hard to understand at times.
Through their scholarship these sisters seek to form "a coalition of all beings who deviate from the white/cis-/able-bodied heterosexual man - which we have been taught over and over again is the Human. One of the clinchers introduced by colonial thinking is that we are not just different and special when measured against all the other animals, but we are the OPPOSITE. Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sisters engage in groundbreaking analysis of the compartmentalized nature of contemporary social movements, present new ways of understanding interconnected opressions, and offer conceptual ways of moving forward, expressive of Afrofuturism and Black veganism. As she so eloquently demonstrates, we should not treat human beings like ‘animals’ any more than we should treat animals like ‘animals.
In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism. In questo libro il messaggio più forte e potete che vogliono rimandarci Aph e Syl Ko è questo: se mangi la carne e i suoi derivati, non sei antirazzista perchè la base di queste due oppressioni è esattamente identica.
If you have any interest at all in a discussion on race, species, power structure, and how they might be connected, I encourage you to read these essays. We are animals, and yet when we hear or speak of “animals'' we don’t usually think of or include homo-sapiens in that definition.Rather than taking an intersectional approach, where the two separate movements supposedly ‘meet’, Ko posits a multidimensional angle which recognises the inextricability of the ideologies from the start. If we use the existing framework or model—the established mindset—to articulate a “solution” to a problem that that model sustains, in what way are we “dismantling”? The book is an extensive adaptation of blogs that the sisters wrote between 2015 and 2016 and we kept the vernacular, slightly demotic tone. Our commitments to eating non-human animals ensures businesses such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Five Guys, etc.
They explain in accessible ways that help you to expand your mind to the new possibilities of true liberation (a liberation that is necessarily intertwined for all the oppressed from the beginning). I appreciate being challenged like that and I hope I'll be able to become a better ally with what I've learned throughout my reading. The phrase "we are all animals" seems to be the result of trying to "de-glamorize" the human for the sake of elevating the animals. You are an enemy to true diversity if your only concern is to recruit black and brown bodies instead of black and brown ideas. They’ve provided an invaluable resource with the potential to inspire the meaningful and significant reflection needed to shift our worldview and bring about truly radical and necessary change.Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sisters engage in groundbreaking analysis of the compartmentalized nature of contemporary social movements, present new ways of understanding interconnected oppressions, and offer conceptual ways of moving forward expressive of Afrofuturism and black veganism. Many intersectional movements assume liberation rests in finding newer intersections of oppression and creating new terms to add to the lexicon of oppression. My favorite is the concept of animality that they bring in and how it is contingent upon white supremacy, racism, and speciesism.
She is the author of Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out, [7] which was described by UK Center for Animal Law as "Establishing the connection between white supremacy and animal use, Ko urges a new form of resistance. The authors seamlessly tie together theories of race and animal liberation to critique the existing (white dominated) animal rights movement (among other topics), and provide guidelines (and hope!We can establish even stronger divisions among ourselves informed by whatever we like, yes even physical traits, and still get along. The Ko sisters make the case that the opposite of white supremacy isn’t the subordination of other humans, but is the subordination of animals.
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