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Intersecting oppressions: perspectives from a Muslim vegan feminist
A childhood hen friend, witnessing a relative’s ritual slaughter of sheep and shocking footage of the torture and killing of Australian cattle in Indonesia caused Ruby Hamad to make the links between feminism and animal rights. Feminists who eat meat, she argues, may be fighting for their own liberation, but as long as they participate in animal exploitation they are propping up the very system they are fighting against. Add comment (4)
Disability is not worse than death
The words of an iconic Australian song miss the mark when it comes to the message sent about people living with disability, writes Moira Byrne .
Support grows to end bear bile farming
Prominent Chinese personalities, students, academics, members of the public and the media are joining the growing chorus of voices speaking out agains...
Does the Make it Possible campaign help or hinder animal advocacy?
Six weeks ago, Animals Australia , the country’s largest animal advocacy organisation, launched its ‘Make it Possible’ campaign, which takes aim at the ...
Take a little time: Interview with Rach Moran
Vegan singer-songwriter and artist Rach Moran will take to the stage at this year’s Cruelty Free Festival this Sunday in Sydney. The veteran lesbian per...
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness: A step in the right direction
In a world that is built on the exploitation of animals, it has served our purpose to regard and treat them as incapable of intelligence and awareness...
What is ‘fake’ and ‘real’ in the sex industry?
Porn has hijacked our sexuality, according to anti-porn author Gail Dines. Her sentiment is not unlike that of other ‘raunch culture’ commentators – t...
Girls are not peripheral: Time to kill the ‘Smurfette principle’
Strong female characters such as Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series and Sookie Stackhouse...
Is it ‘unfeminist’ to hate your body?
Does concerning yourself with issues relating to body image and vanity make you a non-feminist? Rebec...
What is ‘fake’ and ‘real’ in the sex industry?
Porn has hijacked our sexuality, according to anti-porn author Gail Dines. Her sentiment is not unli...
Nobody rides for free: The true cost of social media
We may think that social media is ‘free’, but users are simply commodities whose value is determined...
Our iPad hypocrisy
We love our beautiful high-tech machines so much that we are prepared to turn a blind eye to the con...
Murdoch and Miliband: Cutting the ties between media and politics?
If the UK Labour party gets re-elected after the refusal by party leader Ed Miliband to grovel to th...
Intersecting oppressions: perspectives from a Muslim vegan feminist
A childhood hen friend, witnessing a relative’s ritual slaughter of sheep and shocking footage of th...
Animal agriculture: A huge waste of water
Water scarcity is a reality in many parts of the world, and there is a rapidly growing gap between t...
Disability is not worse than death
The words of an iconic Australian song miss the mark when it comes to the message sent about people ...
It’s time for gay people to stop playing victim
It is essential that gay men and lesbians not shy away from the wound inflicted on them by patriarch...
The challenges of genderqueer love
Do genderqueers date those in the lesbian, gay and bisexual community who fetishize us? Are we releg...
When perseverance becomes self-destruction for trans people
Trans people can sometimes be at higher risk of sacrificing our self-interests because we might not ...
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books. He is the architect of Sacred Activism: the fusion of mystical knowledge, spiritual awareness and
radical action to support all life and the environment to transform the political, economic and cultural
systems that are causing devastation in our world.
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