-
Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Aphro-ism
- Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
- By: Aph Ko, Syl Ko
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Takes vegan philosophy to a higher level
- By Mark on 10-12-19
By: Aph Ko, and others
-
Sistah Vegan
- Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
- By: A. Breeze Harper, Pattrice Jones
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American Black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism.
-
-
Sistah Vegan
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-18
By: A. Breeze Harper, and others
-
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
- A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
- By: Carol J. Adams
- Narrated by: Tosca Hopkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of people into the second decade of the 21st century.
-
-
Well researched and explicated theory.
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Carol J. Adams
-
Powerarchy
- Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation
- By: Melanie Joy
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Harvard-educated psychologist and best-selling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology - which she calls powerarchy. In this thought-provoking analysis, Joy explains how we’ve all been deeply conditioned by the invisible system of powerarchy to believe in a hierarchy of moral worth - to view some individuals and groups as either more or less worthy of moral consideration - and to treat them accordingly.
-
-
Great book
- By Kobi on 12-18-19
By: Melanie Joy
-
The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont)
- By: Pattrice Jones
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends.
By: Pattrice Jones
-
Pleasure Activism
- The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)
- By: Adrienne Maree Brown
- Narrated by: Adrienne Maree Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism.
-
-
This book is worth so much to me ❤️
- By Kristina Kelly on 11-10-20
-
Aphro-ism
- Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
- By: Aph Ko, Syl Ko
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Takes vegan philosophy to a higher level
- By Mark on 10-12-19
By: Aph Ko, and others
-
Sistah Vegan
- Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society
- By: A. Breeze Harper, Pattrice Jones
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American Black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism.
-
-
Sistah Vegan
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-18
By: A. Breeze Harper, and others
-
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
- A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
- By: Carol J. Adams
- Narrated by: Tosca Hopkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of people into the second decade of the 21st century.
-
-
Well researched and explicated theory.
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Carol J. Adams
-
Powerarchy
- Understanding the Psychology of Oppression for Social Transformation
- By: Melanie Joy
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Harvard-educated psychologist and best-selling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology - which she calls powerarchy. In this thought-provoking analysis, Joy explains how we’ve all been deeply conditioned by the invisible system of powerarchy to believe in a hierarchy of moral worth - to view some individuals and groups as either more or less worthy of moral consideration - and to treat them accordingly.
-
-
Great book
- By Kobi on 12-18-19
By: Melanie Joy
-
The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont)
- By: Pattrice Jones
- Narrated by: Dana Brewer Harris
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends.
By: Pattrice Jones
-
Pleasure Activism
- The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)
- By: Adrienne Maree Brown
- Narrated by: Adrienne Maree Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism.
-
-
This book is worth so much to me ❤️
- By Kristina Kelly on 11-10-20
-
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles - from the Black freedom movement to the South African antiapartheid movement.
-
-
Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere
- By Jarucia Jaycox on 05-05-17
By: Angela Y. Davis
-
Unapologetic
- A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
- By: Charlene Carruthers
- Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This audiobook provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development.
-
-
you should read this
- By Alida Cardos Whaley on 04-12-19
-
How to Be an Antiracist
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes listeners through a widening circle of antiracist ideas - from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites - that will help listeners see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
-
-
80% of the useful content is in the first 1-2 chapters
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-20
By: Ibram X. Kendi
-
Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
-
-
Many thanks for this gift
- By Jessica Mayer on 01-04-17
-
Hood Feminism
- Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
- By: Mikki Kendall
- Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Author Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women.
-
-
I Learned So Much!!!
- By Becca on 06-13-20
By: Mikki Kendall
-
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of 15 essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
-
-
Great material, awful performance
- By Richie X on 07-05-17
By: Audre Lorde
-
How to Survive a Pandemic
- By: Michael Greger MD
- Narrated by: Michael Greger MD, Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From tuberculosis to bird flu and HIV to coronavirus, these infectious diseases share a common origin story: Human interaction with animals. Otherwise known as zoonotic diseases for their passage from animals to humans, these pathogens - both pre-existing ones and those newly identified - emerge and re-emerge throughout history, sparking epidemics and pandemics that have resulted in millions of deaths around the world. How did these diseases come about? And what - if anything - can we do to stop them and their fatal march into our countries, our homes, and our bodies?
-
-
This book change the way I think about the future
- By David Donohue on 05-31-20
-
The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
-
-
Brilliant and Sadly Relevant
- By Steve M on 03-20-16
By: James Baldwin
-
Your Body in Balance
- The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health
- By: Neal D. Barnard MD FACC, Lindsay Nixon
- Narrated by: Timothy Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Your Body in Balance provides step-by-step guidance for understanding what's at the root of your suffering - and what you can do to feel better fast. Few people realize that a simple food prescription can help you tackle all these and more by gently restoring your hormone balance, with benefits rivaling medications. Neal Barnard, MD, a leading authority on nutrition and health, offers insight into how dietary changes can alleviate years of stress, pain, and illness. What's more, he also provides delicious and easy-to-make hormone-balancing recipes.
-
-
I learned so much!
- By heather on 02-06-20
By: Neal D. Barnard MD FACC, and others
-
How to Create a Vegan World
- A Pragmatic Approach
- By: Tobias Leenaert
- Narrated by: Jack Ares
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this thought-provoking audiobook, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach. How to Create a Vegan World contains many valuable ideas and insights for both budding advocates for animals and seasoned activists, organizational leaders, and even entrepreneurs.
-
-
The Ultimate Battle Plan for Animal Liberation
- By Bob on 11-29-18
By: Tobias Leenaert
-
Me and White Supremacy
- Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
- By: Layla F. Saad
- Narrated by: Layla F. Saad
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook.
-
-
A MUST listen for blacks and whites alike!
- By The Shop-aholic on 06-12-20
By: Layla F. Saad
-
Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.
-
-
Excellent Introduction to Feminism
- By Listens-a-lot on 03-29-18
By: bell hooks
Publisher's Summary
In this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice movement marked by a deconstruction of the conceptual framework that keeps activists silo-ed fighting their various oppressions - and one another. Through a subtle and extended examination of Jordan Peele’s hit 2017 movie Get Out, Ko shows the many ways that white supremacist notions of animality and race exist through the consumption and exploitation of flesh. She demonstrates how a critical historical and social understanding of anti-blackness can provide the pathway to genuine liberation.
Highly listenable and full of startling insights, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft is a brilliant example of the emerging discipline of black veganism by one of its leading voices.
More from the same
Author
What listeners say about Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mark
- 03-02-20
Narration makes complex text more understandable
I don't know how Aph Ko does it. She's like your kind and generous older sister with a PhD who re-states academic social theory in a way that makes it relevant to your life. She still uses phrases like "decolonial Black epistemic frameworks," but never leaves you hanging there confused. She puts things in the context of "The Bachelor" and the horror film "Get Out," which is used throughout the book to describe the ways that white supremacy exploits and consumes black and brown bodies as well as animals.
As with her great book "Aphro-ism" (co-authored with sister Syl Ko), one of my favorite parts is how she explains that intersectionality is not a good method for analyzing oppressions. Excerpt:
"Although activists are accustomed to taking “race,” “gender,” and “class” and making them intersect, most people don't question how they have been trained to understand what “race,” “gender,” and “class” are to begin with. The reason why Black women are excluded from both the anti-racist movement and the feminist movement is because our cultural understandings of what constitutes a “Black person” and what constitutes a “woman” are already tainted and separated at the root. The mainstream public thinks of a “Black person” as a man and a “woman” as a white female. Making these two spaces connect doesn't discursively birth a Black woman."
Or she discusses how black men are excluded from positions of power in the Black Lives Movement as well as from stories of race-based sexual violence. I didn't know, for example, that Trayvon Martin might've thought George Zimmerman was a rapist. And I didn't know the long history of whites literally consuming slaves, making them into purses and even eating them, and how taxidermy has been used as a symbol of white supremacy.
Anyway, if the following passage speaks to you, you'll love this book:
"How is it possible that we live in an era in which anti-racist activists are acutely aware of how white supremacy treats people of color “like animals,” but are discouraged from examining how literal animals are casualties of this racial caste system as well?"
While I loved the book from the beginning, I read it fairly slowly because of the big words. When I switched to the audio version, I raced through. Both were helpful — the former so I could highlight parts I wanted to think upon later, and the latter so I could simply enjoy the discussion of how our society deals with race, gender, and animals.
Grade: A
As for the narration, Dana Brewer Harris was perfect. She really helped the complex ideas go down smoothly.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 07-13-20
vegan is about more than just not eating meat
like the natural hair movemnt is about way more than hair. "sista vegan" cracked me open and this book filled me with acknowlegement and empowerment. this book dosent do that shamy blamy all black people thing. im relistening now. this book is permission to free yo miiind. think for yourself. listen to yourself
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- M. Gold
- 07-07-20
Brilliant! Eye opening and a must read.
For anyone interested in liberation of any kind, this book speak about the common denominator in the world of social change. If we think intersectionality is the way forward, we miss the 3 dimensional view. Where intersectionality is a look at where different movements "intersect", a look at animality, shows us the full breadth of the underlying root system of white supremacy. Thanks to Aph Ko's easy to understand narrative, we get a glimpse into the consumptive behaviors perpetuated by the idea that that dominance is natural, and that some living beings are superior to others. Beautifully illustrated with thorough research, and many a welcome trip outside of the thinking boxes we create for ourselves and each other. Deep gratitude for this painstaking witnessing of the scenes behind the curtains we draw on so much in our history.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Queen Wilkes
- 04-26-20
easy read, great intellectual content
the author does a great job at illustrating her points. as a community organizer, this book gave me a lot of great things to reflect on.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- deborah cadden
- 07-18-20
Eye opening!
Vegan here just venturing into the world of consistent anti-oppression. Glad to have come across this! Made easier to understand with the glossary of terms for words and concepts that were new to me.