Aphro-Ism : : Essays on pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism From two Sisters

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Authors' notes -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Amie Breeze Harper -- Black lives, black life / by Syl Ko -- Bringing our digital mops home : a call to black folks to stop cleaning up white folks' intellectual messes online / by Aph Ko -- #allvegansrock : the all lives matter hashtag of veganism / by Aph Ko -- By "human," everybody just means "white" / by Syl Ko -- Why confusion is necessary for our activism to evolve / by Aph Ko -- Women, beauty, and nature / by Syl Ko -- Emphasizing similarities does nothing for the oppressed / by Syl Ko -- Addressing racism requires addressing the situation of animals / by Syl Ko -- Why black veganism is more than just being black and vegan / by Syl Ko and Aph Ko -- Seven reasons why labels aren't necessarily the root of oppression / by Aph Ko and Syl Ko -- We've reclaimed blackness : now it's time to reclaim "the animal" / by Syl Ko -- Notes from the border of the human/animal divide : thinking and talking about animal oppression when you're not quite human yourself / by Syl Ko -- Vegans of color and respectability politics : when eurocentric veganism is used to rehabilitate minorities / by Aph Ko -- We can avoid the debate about comparing human and animal oppressions if we simply make the right connections / by Syl Ko -- Why animal liberation requires an epistemological revolution / by Aph Ko -- How social media serves as a digital defibrillator for the "American dream" / by Aph Ko -- Re-valuing the human as a way to re-value the animal / by Syl Ko -- Black veganism revisited / by Syl Ko -- Creating new conceptual architecture : on afrofuturism, animality, and unlearning/rewriting ourselves / by Aph Ko -- Afterword by Carol J. Adams -- Notes -- About the authors -- About the publisher.
In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism. Using popular culture as a point of reference for their critiques, the Ko sisters engage in groundbreaking analysis of the compartmentalized nature of contemporary social movements, present new ways of understanding interconnected oppressions, and offer conceptual ways of moving forward expressive of Afrofuturism and black veganism.

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