Episode 249: Veganarchafeminism with Nathan Poirier
About this episode
This episode features an interview with Nathan Poirier discussing veganarchafeminism and critical animal studies.
On this episode, we speak to Nathan Poirier. Nathan is an interdisciplinary critical animal studies scholar with a background in anthrozoology, sociology, and mathematics. He currently teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan. He's the co-editor of the 2022 collection Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation , the 2023 collection Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation , and of the 2024 collection Veganarchism: Making Veganism and Anarchism Dangerous Again . We talk about the 2025 Lantern Publishing collection Exploring Topics in Non/Human Coexistence: Passion, Praxis, and Presence , which Nathan co-edited with Sarah Tomasello, Erin Jones, and Mark Suchyta. In particular, we dig into one of Nathan's chapters: 'Veganism as an overlooked component of anarchafeminism?' In the quick questions, Nathan mentioned; Ignoring Nature No More , edited by Marc Bekoff. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo14398472.html His paper (with Sarah Tomasello) 'Polar Similar'…
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