Bird’s-Eye Views
Queer Queries About Activism, Animals, and Identity
Join the worldwide resistance against humdrum human hegemony! Dip into this engaging and accessible collection of ecofeminist essays for “other-wise” ideas that will inform and inspire your activism and scholarship.
Roosters, emus, ducks, and pigeons flutter through the pages of this engaging and accessible collection of essays by a co-founder of VINE Sanctuary.
Topics include ableism, activism, anarchism, animal liberation, capitalism, climate change, consciousness, direct action, ecofeminism, emotion, eros, imagination, identity, language, logic, psychology, queerness, racism, sexism, speciesism, surrealism, systems thinking, veganism, and wildlife.
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“Since human-centered interventions into human misdeeds have so far failed to solve intra-species problems such as warfare, poverty, or inequality, much less human-engendered planetary catastrophes like the climate, water, and pollution crises, the need for more ecological analyses and truly new strategies feels urgent to me. I offer these essays, old and new, not as the answer to anything but as contributions to our collective process of problem-solving and imagination.”
pattrice jones is a co-founder of VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-led refuge for farmed animals. A former tenant organizer and anti-racist educator, jones has accumulated more than 40 years of activist experience in peace and justice movements. An internationally recognized ecofeminist theorist, jones has taught college and university courses on the theory and praxis of social change activism as well as on linkages among different forms of injustice. Trained as a clinical psychologist, jones brings heart, mind, rigor, and candor to the challenging questions facing 21st century social movements.
Contents
I. Bird’s-Eye Views
Property, Profit, and (Re)Production: A Birds’-Eye View
Harbingers of (Silent) Spring
Reflections from Under the Glare of an Angry Emu
Mocking Birds: Mystery Symphonies and the Ableism of Speciesism
The Persistence of Pigeons
Beyond Despair
II. Eco-Logical Analyses
Free as a Bird: Principles and Practices of Natural Anarchism
Birds Beyond Words: Fantastic Animals and Other Flights of Imagination
Fighting Cocks: Ecofeminism Versus Sexualized Violence
Animale
Queer Eye on the EA Guys
III. Queering Animal Liberation
Conquistadors of the Senses
Eros and the Mechanisms of Eco-Defense
Queer Eros in the Enchanted Forest
Becoming More Queer
IV. Direct Action Gets Satisfaction
Tenants Strike Back: The All-City Rent Strike of 1969-71
Mothers with Monkeywrenches
Stomping with the Elephants
I Know Why the Caged Birds Scream
Let’s Put on a Show!
V. Allsorts
The African Queen
13 October 2000
The Power of Grassroots Movements
Honk for Peace
Truth Against Trash
The Turtle Talk
Gays at War
Axioms
Peacocks, Parakeets, and the Two Sides of Style
Selfies and Sanctuaries
Dodos and ‘Dodos’
Otherwise