Welcome!
Hello there, friends! Welcome to Animal Rights & AntiOppression. We’re excited to share this new project with you, and we hope you’re at least a tiny bit excited about it too.
As you know if you’ve come here via my goodbye post at Change.org, I’m experiencing some sorrow about closing that chapter, but I’m also excited to explore this new opportunity and to do so in the company of some wonderful folks: my fellow bloggers and you alike.
As noted in multiple places now, this space is a work in progress with much more to come, so in addition to bookmarking us and adding us to your feed reader, please join the mailing list as well, and we’ll send you (rare) updates as plans come together and exciting new developments arise. You can sign up via Yahoo! Groups or, alternatively, subscribe by sending a blank message to challengeoppression-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
And now, between the About page, the Contributor Bios page (which will introduce you to the team), and the team’s first few posts, you have plenty of reading to do upon this first visit, so I won’t say more. Thanks for joining us.
Stephanie Ernst
Marji
Kelly G.
Deb
Mary Martin
Congrats on this new venture! Looking forward to following along!
Thanks, Leigh! :)
Oh… I must have missed a deadline to post on Change.org. I too just wanted to say thanks for all your excellent articles there. I always learned something from your observations and writings. Certainly great to follow you to a different spot in continuation of the Animal Rights conversation. :)
Thanks, Bea. I’m sorry about the comment thread on the goodbye post being closed. I’m not the one who did that; I was as surprised as anyone to find all my comment threads suddenly closed this morning.
Not a problem… Best news is that you’re not disappearing – Just moving. I have my favorite authors – those that I can depend on to make complete sense… In those very fragile days I have now and then, it makes all the difference in the world to me! Thanks for all you do!
I just learned of this and personally, I think it’s great news. I never wanted to join/support the Change site, but I’ll be adding a link for this one to my blog.
Greentangle!! Can I tell you how good it is to virtually see you again? I’ve missed you. I was just catching up on some of your posts yesterday. Believe it or not, if I can get the timing worked out, another personal blog may be going live soon too, where I can write about some of the stuff that I wrote about on Vida but that wouldn’t be quite right here. So glad to reconnect with you. I hope some of the stressful stuff eases up for you soon. I’m looking forward to the new year like never before too. :)
Aw, thanks, I’ve missed you too. You’re choking me up in the library but fortunately, I’m almost out of computer time. ;-)
My friend Shaynie and I predict the human exploitation/oppression issue(s) will become the majority of your postings. The Feminist Majority and National Organization for Women do fine and excellent coverage of female oppression. We are disappointed you have decided
to include that issue along with animal rights. Animal’s rights will always be secondary to women’s rights even though our gender is also oppressed and exploited.
With all due respect, (1) you have no reason to “predict” any such thing about this blog; (2) I don’t understand whom or what it hurts that I (and others) care about animal rights *and* other issues, that we’re normalizing animal rights among other also-important issues; and (3) those who don’t like this blog’s multi-issue focus aren’t obligated to read it. There are good, solid reasons for covering all oppressions on this blog, some of which are discussed on the About This Site page, and I hope you’ll consider them, come to respect why I chose this approach, and continue reading and discussing with us here. But that, obviously, is up to you.
With all due respect, tho’ I so much admire your blogging abilities, I always feel guilty when I devote time reading and commenting on blogs when I should be actively helping the animals rather than reading and writing about helping them. So I’ll do us both a favor and un-subscribe. :-)
Hey, can we link to your blog on our site. Yay, we are not alone!!!!!
With all due respect, (1) you have no reason to “predict” any such thing about this blog; (2) I don’t understand whom or what it hurts that I (and others) care about animal rights *and* other issues, that we’re normalizing animal rights among other also-important issues; and (3) those who don’t like this blog’s multi-issue focus aren’t obligated to read it. There are good, solid reasons for covering all oppressions on this blog, some of which are discussed on the About This Site page, and I hope you’ll consider them, come to respect why I chose this approach, and continue reading and discussing with us here. But that, obviously, is up to you.
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