
In Context with pattrice jones is a podcast that looks at timely questions facing animal advocates within the broader ecosystem of ideas about social and environmental justice.
Each show features pattrice introducing a topic by way of one of the animals at VINE before inviting a featured guest into a free-flowing discussion about their own work on the topic at hand.
Guests include activists, authors, and scholars doing exciting and innovative work at the intersections of multiple injustices.
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Audio Episodes
Collective Liberation
with Eloisa Trinidad
Learning from Other Movements
with Anita Krajnc
Reimagining Community
with Lorikim Alexander
Video Episodes
Episode 12
Broken Bonds
with Katherine Roe
Episode 10
Talking Animals
with Laura Jean McKay
Episode 8
Humane Education
with Anna Boarini
Episode 6
Focusing
with Miko Brown
Episode 4
Living for the Future During Climate Crisis
with Dany Celermajer
Episode 2
Queering Animal Liberation
with Christopher Sebastian
Episode 11
Human Error
with Justin Gregg
Episode 9
Teaching Kindness
with Lisbet Chiriboga
Episode 7
Mutual Aid
with Michelle Carrera
Episode 5
Art & Activism
with Louder Than Words
Episode 3
Community Organizing
with Brenda Sanders
Episode 1
Ecofeminist Animal Ethics
with Lori Gruen
Show Notes
# | TOPIC | GUEST | NOTES |
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1 | Ecofeminist Animal Ethics | Lori Gruen | Lori Gruen is the author of Ethics and Animals and co-editor of Ecofeminism. |
2 | Queering Animal Liberation | Christopher Sebastian | Christopher Sebastian is a writer, researcher, educator, and activist who has worked with Peace Advocacy Network, Sentient Media, and numerous other organizations. |
3 | Community Organizing | Brenda Sanders | Brenda Sanders is a founder of Afro-Vegan Society and Greener Kitchen. |
4 | Living for the Future During Climate Crisis | Dany Celermajer | Professor Danielle Celermajer is a director of the Sydney Environment Institute and the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. You can read the first essay she wrote about Jimmy here. |
5 | Art and Activism | S.A. Bachman and Neda Moridpour | Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman are the founders of Louder Than Words, a cross-cultural, intergenerational art collective that has targeted sexual assault, domestic violence, LGBTQ equality, animal liberation, and mass incarceration and has recently turned its attention to dairy. |
6 | Focusing | Miko Brown | At the time of this interview, Miko Brown was Director of Social Justice Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary. |
7 | Mutual Aid | Michelle Carrera | Michelle Carrera is the founder of Chilis on Wheels and Casa Vegana de la Comunidad |
7a | Learning from Other Movements | Anita Krajnc | Anita Krajnc is the founder of The Save Movement, an international network of climate and animal rights activists. |
8 | Humane Education | Anna Boarini | Anna Boarini created VINE Sanctuary’s virtual humane education program, Barnyard Buddies. |
9 | Teaching Kindness | Lisbet Chiriboga | Lisbet Chiriboga is former elementary school teacher who founded HEART and now manages the Teach Kind program. |
10 | Talking Animals | Laura Jean McKay | Laura Jean McKay is the author of the award-winning novel, The Animals In That Country. The ecofeminist philosopher mentioned in the episode is Val Plumwood. |
11 | Human Error | Justin Gregg | Justin Gregg is the author of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity. |
12 | Broken Bonds | Katherine Roe | Katherine Roe is a neuroscientist who develops evidence-based strategies to replace animals in scientific research and who has spoken out against the use of monkeys in research on mother-infant attachment. Learn about the Harvard experiments she mentioned here. |
13 | Reimagining Community | Lorikim Alexander | Lorikim Alexander is an organizer of Black FegVest, a kickass activist for QTBIPOC liberation, and a wildlife biologist as well as a founder of The Cypher, a Black femme-focused and led QTBIPOC collective with the goal of forwarding Black Trans and Queer liberation with a vegan and environmental justice praxis. |
Upcoming Episodes
DATE | TOPIC | GUEST | NOTES |
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TBA | Restorative Justice | TBA | In this episode, we will discuss alternatives to incarceration for perpetrators of animal abuse |
TBA | Mothers Against Dairy | Ashley Capps | Ashley Capps is the founder of Mothers Against Dairy, an innovative project working at the nexus of feminism and antispeciesism. |
TBA | Animal Rights and Disability Rights | TBA | In this episode, we will discuss intersections between ableism and speciesism |
TBA | Meat and Masculinity | TBA | In this episode, we will discuss the ways that animals are used in the social construction of the most toxic forms of masculinity |