Made zines with friends yesterday! It was a lot of fun! Mine was on animal rights and asexuality. I&
Made zines with friends yesterday! It was a lot of fun! Mine was on animal rights and asexuality. I’ve been thinking about the connection between the two these past couple of weeks, as a few of us from the Bay Area LGBTQ+ Animal Liberationists were preparing for a panel on “Intersections In Oppressions and How To Be An Ally”. The presentation was geared towards folks who are well-versed in animal rights but may not know as much about LGBTQ+ issues and the connections between the two. As beings who are “othered”, there are many similarities between the denial of LGBTQ+ identities/devaluation of LGBTQ+ lives and the denial of animals’ personhoods/devaluation of their lives.The 3Ns are fairly well-known in the animal rights and vegan communities from Melanie Joy’s book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. Melanie remarks on how the 3Ns – natural, normal, and necessary – have been used to justify many other exploitative systems and oppressions throughout history. For example, the 3Ns are often what people use to justify homophobia, saying how being gay is “unnatural”, “abnormal”, and “unnecessary”.In 2015, a group of researchers published Rationalising Meat Consumption, which added another N – nice – to make 4Ns. “Nice” is an interesting rationalization because it’s not admitted as often, and it doesn’t apply as nicely to justifications for oppressive systems like homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, etc. It’s used all the time to justify asexual erasure, though (because sex is just so nice, why wouldn’t everyone like it?). There’s a fear of “missing out” that often comes with perceiving that something is nice.Anyways, zines are fun and exciting and I want to make more! We used the one-sheet-of-paper technique (not sure what the technique is actually called, woops) from How to Make a Zine. -- source link
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