Animals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human beings are political actors. All of us are part of a web of relations in which we affect others and are affected by them. To counter the current ecological destruction and find more just ways to co-exist, humans need new ways of doing politics with other earth beings.

In this brief and accessible book, philosopher Eva Meijer develops such a new political model: The multispecies assembly. Multispecies assemblies are a form of direct democracy in which some beings speak for themselves and others are represented. Living differently as humans is possible, but we must begin to listen to others, and learn from them.

Author Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes are language including silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics. Meijer works as a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers, and is a member of the Multispecies Collective. Previous books include Animal Languages ( MIT Press, 2020) and When Animals Speak (NYU Press, 2019).

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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 quirky essays by a feminist activist and scholar writing from the grounds of an animal sanctuary founded by LGBTQ people with disabilities.

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. Learn more here.

Author 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.

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