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*please note that whilst we tried to categorise this collection of links and resources according to their main focus for improved clarity, we - clearly - recognise that there are considerable overlaps as you cannot talk about one form of oppression without talking about another.
Introduction
Origin of the term intersectionality
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Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later / Columbia Law School / 08.06.2017
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Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use” / NewStateman / 02.04.2014
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Please read: Dr. C. Michele Martindill - Lessons in White Fragility: When Vegan Abolitionists Appropriate Intersectionality. / Vegan Feminist Nework / 06.05.2015
ENGLISH
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More Than Just Animals / Faunanalytics / 17.01.2020
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Why Animal Rights Fails at Intersectionality / Earthling Liberation Kollective
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There’s no conflict between human and animal rights / Vox / 21.08.2019
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Vegan activism: Confronting connections between human and animal oppression / 17.05.2018
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Are Animal Rights and Human Rights in Tension? / 12.03.2018
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Why human rights groups are beginning to support the rights of non-human animals / 13.03.2018
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3 Reasons Why You Should Become a Pro-Intersectional* Activist / Collectively Free / 27.02.2017
German
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Intersektionaler Veganismus - Dinge verbinden, die zusammengehören
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Biologismus als Speziesismus / 24.05.2018
Ableism & ageism
Ableism
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Sunaura Taylor - Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? / The New Yorker / 05.06.2017
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Sunara Taylor - On Ableism and Animals (An experpt from Beasts of Burden) / The New Inquiry / 30.05.2017
Ageism
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C. Michele Martindill - An Overlooked Intersection: Ageism, Sexism and the Animal Rights Movement / 30.03.2015
ANimal Advocacy Movement
ENGLISH
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The Revolutionary Potential of Vegan Politics by Zane McNeill / Sentient Media / 30.07.2020
GERMAN
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Tierschutz- und Tierrechtsbewegung - ein historischer Abriss / Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung / 14.02.2012
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So Punk! – Die musikalischen Wurzeln des Veganismus
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»Im Punk geht es um Freiheit – für Menschen und Tiere«. / Magazin für Gegenkultur / 24.02.2015
Environment
english
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Climate change is an LGBT+ issue / 05.08.2019
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Fragile masculinity says meat is manly. If we don't challenge that, people will die and the earth will be irreversibly damaged / The Independent / 04.04.2019
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Does Unconscious Bias Affect Our Sustainable Lifestyle Choices? / Forbes / 03.04.2019
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Sarah Hurtes - Women Who Risk Everything to Defend the Environment / 30.11.2018
German
feminism, Sexism & 'masculinity'
Why vegan feminism
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Why is veganism a feminist issue? / The Vegan Feminist Lawyer / 29.03.2019
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Melissa Kravitz - Here's Why Our Food Systems Are a Central Feminist Issue / 27.07.2018
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What Do Hamburgers Have To Do With Gender? – Carol J. Adams about ‘Burger’ / NPR / 05.04.2018
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Miranda Larbi - Is going vegan the ultimate feminist statement? / Metro UK / 04.02.2018
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Silence Is What’s Actually Hurting Animals / The Thinking Vegan / 31.01.2018
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If We Can’t Reject Exploitation, Why Do We Expect The Patriarchy To Change? / ecorazzi / 24.01.2018
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Sociology Professor Deems Not Eating Meat A Feminist Act / LiveKindly / 08.12.2017
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Animal Liberation Is A Feminist Issue / Youth Ki Awaaz / 02.08.2017
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3 Reasons All Feminists Should Support Animal Rights / Huffington Post / 21.05.2016
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Marina Colerato - Let’s Talk About The Intersectionality Of Veganism And Feminism / Vilda Magazine / 06.03.2016
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Aph Ko - 5 Reasons Why Animal Rights Are A Feminist Issue / Everyday Feminism / 30.12.2014
History
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Meet the Women Who've Served Up 40 Years of Feminist Food — But Can Their Restaurant Survive? / Shondaland / 11.06.2019
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How Vegetarian Food Fueled the British Suffragette Movement / 03.07.2018
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Carol J. Adams - Visibility, History, and Tennis Shoes / Unbound Project / 08.09.2016
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Elsie Shrigley: The Woman Behind The Word Veganism / Collectively Free / 30.04.2017
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147 Years Ago Today These Extraordinary Women Spoke Up For Animals When No One Else Would / Women You Should Know / 14.04.2016
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German: Brown Dog Riots - Doppelt verschwiegene Geschichte. / Veganinfo.blog / 12.02.2019
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German: Die Tiere Rosa Luxemburgs. / Totalliberation
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German: Suffragette: Verschwiegene Geschichte. / Antispeziesismus / 27.02.2016
‘Feminized Protein’
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Why Milk Is A Feminist Issue / Plantbased News / 19.06.2018
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Dear New York Times, “Feminist” Cheese Does Not Exist / Mercy for Animals / 29.11.2017
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Feminism and Veganism Collide / 30.03.2017
Objectification
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6 ways the meat industry objectifies women / The Lily / 21.02.2018
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6 Tactics Advertisers Use to Objectify Women and Animals in Similarly Horrible Ways / Alternet / 7.03.2018
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Study Shows Objectified Women Less Likely to be Activists / 21.08.2018
'Masculinity' and Meat
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Meat And ‘New Masculinity’ / Faunanalytics / 15.06.2020
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The mystery of why there are more women vegans / BBC / 18.02.2020
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The Patriarchy of Plant-based Food / Lady Science / 2020
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Meatless Meals And Masculinity: How Veg*n Men Explain Their Diets / Faunanalytics / 19.03.2020
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Meat and Masculinity Politics / Vegan Voices of Color / 21.01.2018
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Eco-Friendliness and Masculinity: Is There a ‘Green-Feminine’ Stereotype? / Faunanalytics / 21.05.2018
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Anti-Vegetarianism is Sexism in Disguise / 03.01.2018
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Researchers Link Eating Meat to Sexism / VegNews
Gender Attitudes
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Gender, Meat-Eating, And Cognitive Dissonance / Faunanalytics / 05.07.2018
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Gender Difference in Attitudes Towards Animal Exploitation / Faunanalytics / 29.06.2018
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Seeing baby animals reduces appetite for meat, especially for women / Lancaster University / 06.08.2018
SEXISM & Discrimination IN THE MOVEMENT
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Sexism and Male Privilege in the Anymal Activist Community by Lisa Kemmerer/ Animal Liberation Currents / 08.03.2019
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Collective against Nonprofit Harassment and Discrimination by Lisa Kemmerer / Animal Liberation Currents / 19.03.2019
Personal Accounts
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Topaz Hooper - What it means to be Afro, Vegan and Feminist / 08.06.2018
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Elizabeth Enochs - To Uphold My Feminist Values, I Went Vegan / The Establishment / 07.11.2018
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Anna Varga - How Veganism Became an Integral Part of My Feminism / Vegan Feminist Network / 24.02.2016
German – Feminismus & Tierrechte
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Anastasia Yarbrough - Weißes Überlegenheitsdenken und das Patriarchat schaden Tieren / 23.10.2018
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Carol J. Adams: Bitch, Chick, Kuh: Die Rechte von Frauen und (anderen) Tieren / Die Störenfriedas / 15.08.2018
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Feminismus und Tierrechtsaktivismus – Gemeinsamer Nenner: Liberation / Die Störenfriedas / 01.03.2016
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Brown Dog Riots: Allianzen zwischen Arbeiter-, Antivivisektions- und Frauenbewegung / Antispeziezistische Aktion Tübingen / 16.05.2013
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Fleischlust und „Fleischeslust“, männliche Herrschaft und weibliches Mitleid, Tierbefreiung und Feminismus / Friederike Schmitz / 24.02.2013
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Katharina Röggla - Mein Körper, mein veganer Tempel / arranca!
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Fleisch und Feminismus / an.schläge / 22.06.2014
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Charlotte Roche - Warum ich Tier-Feministin bin / Süddeutsche / 12.07.2018
German – ‚Männlichkeit‘ und Fleisch
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"Männer tendieren mehr zum Fleisch" / Zeit Online / 17. 01.2020
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Veganismus und Männlichkeiten - Interview zu Fleisch-Stereotypen, "Veggie-Boom" und Körperbildern / TU Darmstadt / 07.12.2018
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Die männliche Lust auf Fleisch / Vegan.at / 29.04.2014
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Das Grillen ist des Mannes Lust – Über Speziesismus und Sexismus am Grill / The Vactory / 31.08.2017
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Wie Männer zu Vegetariern werden / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 15.11.2017
language
ENGLISH
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Animal Rights and the Language of Slavery / Striving with Systems / 27.12.2015
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On Speciesist Language by Joan Dunayer / On The Issues Magazine / Winter 1990.
Nationalism, Facism & Neoliberalism
ENGlish
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They want to take away your hamburgers: Animal exploitation and white nationalism / Christopher Sebastian / 13.03.2019
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‘Trump Veganism’: Motivations and Identity / Faunanalytics / 20.02.2018
GERMAN
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Neoliberalismus - Wie aus einer radikalen Idee die einflussreichste Ideologie unserer Zeit wurde / Perspective Daily / 01.07.2020
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Die radikalen Ideen der Cybernazis zu Umwelt- und Tierschutz / Bell Tower / 28.01.2020
people of color, Racism & white fragility
ENGlish
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Oppression Without Hierarchy: Racial Justice and Animal Advocacy by Michelle Rojas-Soto / Sentient Media / 15.10.2020
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In Response to Harriet Hall: The White Savior is You, Not Joaquin Phoenix / Christopher Sebastian / 11.02.2020
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Three Ways Black Veganism Challenges White Supremacy / Afropunk / 24.10.2017
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Lessons in White Fragility: When Vegan Abolitionists Appropriate Intersectionality. / Vegan Feminist Nework / 06.05.2015
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Veganism a Way to Combat Race-Based Violence, Says Columbia Lecturer / 23.02.2018
History
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A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender / The Guardian / 31.07.2018
Black veganism & PLant-Based food
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Deep Roots: Communities of Color and the Plant-Based Movement / OMD Blog / 28.11.2019
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Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes / New York Times / 28.11.2018
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Black Vegans Are Fighting The Power With Food / Huffington Post / 08.02.2018
German
Queer Humans & Nonhumans
INtroduction
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Pattrice Jones - Of Brides and Bridges: Linking Feminist, Queer, and Animal Liberation Movements / 6./7.2005
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How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time / Orion Magazine
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Jasmin Singer - Gay rights and animal rights: Intersections / The Scavenger / 10.06.2011
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Jasmin Singer - Coming Out for Animal Rights: LGBTQ Animal Advocates Make the Connection / 03.2007
ThoughTs
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But Are You A ‘Real’ Man? / Human Liberation Animal Liberation
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Queer Empowerment: Food Justice, Veganism and the Act of Resistance / Vine Sanctuary
Personal accounts
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Coming Out as Vegan - The Cultural Overlap of Being Vegan and Queer / Jarry Mag / 26.04.2019
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Zane McNeill on Growing Up Vegan as a Queer Experience / Animals in Society
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Jo Anderson - No Label: Identity In A Time Of Transition / Faunanalytics / 23.05.2018
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Josie Le Vay - I have a queery: why are so many LGBT+ people vegan? / Diva / 17.10.2017
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Nathan Runkle - The Animal Rights Movement Gives a Gay Man Lessons in Activism / Advocate / 12.09.2017
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Joe Loria - Here’s How I Got My Meat-Eating Boyfriend to Go Vegan / Mercy for Animals / 09.08.2017
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Sam Wood - Queer Vegan Intersectionality / 26.07.2017
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Glenn Greenwald And His Partner Start New Animal Shelter In Brazil / 16.05.2017
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Lotte Jeffs - Suddenly I'm All The Trends / Elle / 19.07.2016
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Ari Solomon - My Parents Were Cool When I Came Out as Gay. But Then I Told Them I Was Vegan… / ChooseVeg / 25.06.2016
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Ari Solomon - Being Vegan Is SO Gay / GirlieGirlArmy/ 16.03.2011
PRIDE
QueerNess & Nonhuman Animals
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Lesbian Ant Species Confirmed / Gizmodo / 01.12.2010
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GERMAN: Schwule Schwäne / taz / 2. 12. 2019
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GERMAN: Laura und die «lesbischen» Albatrosse / Blick / 01.08.2019
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GERMAN: Nemo ist ein Transsexueller / Frankfurter Allgemeine / 25.11.2003
GERMAN
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"Leute haben ein Problem mit Pflanzensex, aber nicht damit, Pflanzen zu essen" / Monopol Magazin / 02.08.2019
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So shoppt die LGBTI-Community in Deutschland / Queer.de / 19.02.2019
Religion
ENGlish
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Buddhist Nun Leads Asia’s Fight for Gay Marriage / Harvard Divinit Bulletin / Spring/Summer 2020
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Casteism In India Puts Both Humans And Animals Through Horrific Torture by Prateek Kumar / Youth Ki Awaaz / 23.01.2019
German
People & Pictures
People of colour
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#BlackVegansRock: 100 Black Vegans to Check Out / Striving with Systems / 11.06.2015
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10 Vegans of Color on What Being Vegan Means to Them / SELF / 06.01.2019
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Social Justice Activist Shaun King Goes Vegan / VegNews / 09.01.2018
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5 Black Vegan Cooks You Should Be Following, Because There's So Much Inspiration Out There / Bustle
Women
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Ten Plant-Based Female Athletes Changing The World For Animals / Unbound Project / 29.03.2019
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13 Wonder Women Fighting for Animal / Animal Outlook / 08.03.2019
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A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson / The Nation /13.02.2013
queer
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5 Vegan Lesbians Who Are the Real Deal / VegNews
Pictures
& Other stuff
ENGLISH
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Intersectional Advocacy Tends To Bring In Less Money / Faunanalytics / 07.03.2018
German
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Menschenrechte? Nicht so wichtig / Süddeutsche Zeitung / 15.01.2020