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Lisa Kemmerer
“Ecofeminists focus on interconnections between the domination/oppression of women and the domination/oppression of nature.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Ecofeminist analysis is generally much more expansive than environmentalism and feminism. . . . Ecofeminism draws on ecological, socialist, and feminist thought, incorporating a handful of social justice movements, such as feminism, peace activism, labor movements, women鈥檚 health care, anti-nuclear, environmental, and animal liberation.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Violence is central to patriarchy, and the forms of systemic violence are interconnected in Western societies. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression (such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example) is essential.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Tayari Jones
“The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby鈥檚 pajamas for her pregnant sister.

鈥淢en,鈥 the customer said. 鈥淲ho can understand the way their minds work?鈥

Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn鈥檛 laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.”
Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow

Lisa Kemmerer
“Oppressions are by definition linked--linked by common ideologies, by institutional forces, and by socialization that makes oppressions normative and invisible.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Ecofeminists call attention to the fact that environmentalists, feminists, and those fighting racism and poverty, are pulling on different straws in the same broom.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“People tend to refer to nonhuman animals as 鈥渋t鈥 or sometimes 鈥渉e,鈥 regardless of the individual鈥檚 sex. This one-sex-fits-all approach objectifies and denies individuality. In fact, nonhuman animals who are exploited for food industries are usually females. Such unfortunate nonhumans are not only exploited for their flesh, but also for their nursing milk, reproductive eggs, and ability to produce young. When guessing the gender of a nonhuman animal forced through slaughterhouse gates, we would greatly increase odds of being correct if we referred to such unfortunate individuals as 鈥渟he.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Those who are willing to work for change, and make changes, too often do so only for the sake of their own liberation, without much thought to the oppression of others鈥攅specially other species. Feminists lobby against sex wage discrepancies, gays fight homophobic laws, and the physically challenged demand greater access鈥攅ach fighting for injustices that affect their lives, and/or the lives of their loved ones. Yet these dedicated activists usually fail to make even a slight change in their consumer choices for the sake of other much more egregiously oppressed and exploited individuals. While it is important to fight for one鈥檚 own liberation, it is counterproductive (not to mention selfish and small minded) to fight for one鈥檚 own liberation while willfully continuing to oppress others who are yet lower on the rungs of hierarchy. While fighting for liberation, it makes no sense for feminists to trample on gays, for gays to trample on the physically challenged, or for the physically challenged to trample on feminists. It also makes no sense for any of these social justice activists to willfully exploit factory farmed animals. Can we not at least avoid exploiting and dominating others while working for our personal liberation? Those who seek greater justice鈥攚hatever their cause鈥攎ust make choices that diminish the cruel exploitation of others. As a matter of consistency and solidarity, social justice activists must reject dairy products, eggs, and flesh.

There is no other industry as cruel and oppressive as factory farming. With regard to numbers affected, extent and length of suffering, and numbers of premature deaths, no other industry can even approach factory farming. Billions of individuals are exploited from genetically engineered birth, through excruciating confinement, to conveyor belt dismemberment. Consequently, there is no industry more appropriate for social justice activists to boycott. Even if we aren鈥檛 prepared to take a public stand, or take on another cause, we must at least make a private commitment on behalf of cows, pigs, and hens by leaving animal products on the shelf at the grocery store.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“The same patriarchy that oppresses women oppresses nonhuman animals. Farmed animals and 鈥渉ousewives,鈥 鈥渓ab鈥 animals and prostitutes, dancing bears and girls in the sex trade鈥攁ll have too long been exploited by the same patriarchal hierarchy wherein the comparatively weak are exploited for the benefit of the powerful.

Those who are aware of history, of patriarchy and of the feminist movement, tend to understand how difficult it is鈥攁nd how important鈥攆or people to rethink basic behaviors in order to bring about deep and lasting change. We must rethink how we speak, how we spend our time, and what we consume. This is as true for fighting sexism as it is for fighting speciesism鈥攐r any other form of domination, exploitation, and oppression. We must change our lives first, and most fundamentally. I hope that
readers working to improve the lives of girls and women . . . will realize that they can and must choose not to continue to exploit nonhuman animals while working to liberate girls and women.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“Many social justice activists--many feminists--continue to work against one form of oppression while feeding the flames of another, without noticing that the blow torch behind the flames must be tuned off before we can have any hope of putting out the resultant fires.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“A lack of concern about the plight of a 鈥渂reeding鈥 sow on a factory farm is also a result of normative systematic oppression 鈥 speciesism.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Failing to notice a lack of Latino and African-American representation in congress is a result of systemic oppression 鈥 racism. General indifference to the fact that white men dominate large corporations is part of the invisibility of both racism and sexism. A lack of concern about the plight of a 鈥渂reeding鈥 sow on a factory farm is also a result of normative systematic oppression 鈥 speciesism.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Because the oppression of nonhuman individuals is normative, it is largely invisible, and most of us are complicit in one way or another. While social justice activists now widely recognize that the poor, elderly, and non-white racialized minorities are harmed by patriarchy, few are willing to similarly recognize the harm of patriarchal dualisms and hierarchy on nonhuman animals 鈥 even ecofeminist theorists. Very few social justice activists have even a rudimentary understanding of speciesism, or of the harmful exploitation that stems from such marginalization and cruel domination of nonhuman animals.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Acknowledging and protecting nonhuman individuals places limits on human power, and will put an end to a host of ill-gotten gains 鈥 just as emancipation curtailed white power and put an end to the ill-gotten gains of Caucasian-Americans. Consequently, animal activists who push for change are often met with derision and indifference by those who wish to continue their accustomed diet, those who do not want to rethink their leather shoes, toiletries, or treasured forms of entertainment. Feminists and civil rights protesters who asked others to change for the sake of justice 鈥 to give up their ill-gotten gains 鈥 were and are met with similar insults and raucous rejections.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“It is increasingly difficult for social justice activists to advocate 鈥 with a clear conscience 鈥 for women, the poor, or immigrants while eating other animals or consuming the nursing milk of cattle. Animal activists have already begun to effectively expose the links of oppression across species.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“It is increasingly difficult for social justice activists to advocate 鈥 with a clear conscience 鈥 for women, the poor, or immigrants while eating other animals or consuming the nursing milk of cattle. Animal activists are exposing the links that connect the oppression of nonhuman animals with human oppression.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Those who suggest that individual animals do not matter in light of larger ecological problems, fail to realize that speciesism and ecological devastation are interconnected.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“All human beings are systematically socialized to oppress cattle, chickens, snakes, mice, dogs, and all other nonhuman individuals. After the fashion of Sojouner Truth, might cows and chickens ask: 鈥淎in鈥檛 I a female, too?鈥 And would not dogs and snakes ask, "Ain't I a living being, too?”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“working on behalf of social justice 鈥 working on behalf of nonhuman animals 鈥 requires immersion in the horrors of oppression. For the women who have submitted essays for this anthology, immersion in the ugliness of injustice, in the hope of change, seems preferable to turning away. . . .

... There is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and trauma: By walking into extreme misery in the hope of exposing injustice and bringing change, these women have moved from helplessness and despair to empowered activism.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Violence is central to patriarchy, and Western society鈥檚 various forms of systemic violence
are interconnected. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example, is essential . . . . We can curb this tendency only if all forms of violence are exposed and challenged鈥攔ape and slaughter, rodeos and brothels. We cannot expect to put
out the fire by removing only one coal.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“But activists must not work against one another in their single-minded dedication to one specific cause. Those fighting to protect horses must not eat cattle. We do well to specialize, we do not do so well if we specialize without knowledge of interlocking oppressions鈥攐r without the application of that
knowledge.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Those who seek greater justice in our world need to work toward a deeper understanding of oppressions. Activists need to develop the kind of understanding that will lead to a lifestyle鈥攁 way of being鈥攖hat works against all oppressions. . . .

This requires us to be open to change as a response
to what other social justice activists say鈥攅specially those advocating against parallel interlocking oppressions. We cannot end just one form of oppression, so we need to be on board with other activists. If we are not, we doom social justice activists to perpetually pulling up the innumerable shoots that spring from the very deep roots of oppression. Furthermore, inability to see one鈥檚 own privilege and ignorance of the struggles that others face (in a homophobic, racist, ageist, ableist, sexist society) are major impediments to social justice activism. Those who are privileged must get out of the way so that others can take the lead, bringing new social justice concerns and methods to the activist鈥檚 table.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“For most women (as for most men) links between sexism and speciesism are not readily apparent. We have been conditioned not to see exploitation.
For example, men generally have no idea how patriarchy affects women鈥攗nless they go out of their way to learn. The same is true for women with
regard to cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys.

Both women and nonhuman animals have traditionally been viewed as property鈥"things鈥 to be owned and controlled by those in power. While the plight of women is linked with that of nonhuman animals through a single system of oppression, through their comparative powerlessness and invisibility, and through sexual exploitation, it is important to elucidate these similarities through concrete examples. Links between women and nonhuman animals are nowhere more apparent than through
the vulnerabilities of mothers and their young, and the control of pregnancies and offspring; this particular form of oppression is nowhere more blatant
than on factory farms.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“Not only do we harbor patriarchal indifference to uniquely female suffering, but additionally, most of us are ignorant of the horrible cruelty inherent in factory farming. It is easy to buy a bucket of chicken or a carton of vanilla yogurt without even knowing about the females whose sad lives lie behind these unnecessary products. It is easy to forget that mozzarella and cream come from a mother鈥檚 munificence鈥攎others who would have desperately preferred to tend their young, and to live out their lives with a measure of freedom and comfort鈥攐r not to be born at all. Most consumers are unaware of the ongoing, intense suffering and billions of premature deaths that lurk behind mayonnaise and cream, cold cuts and egg sandwiches.

Even with the onset of contemporary animal advocacy, and the unavoidability of at least some knowledge of what goes on in slaughterhouses and
on factory farms, most of us choose to look away鈥攅ven feminists. Collectively, feminists remain largely unaware of the well-documented links between the exploitation of women and girls, and the exploitation of cows, sows, and hens.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“While it is one thing to strive for a cause that fundamentally and primarily benefits you鈥攜our freedom and equality (or the freedom and equality of those you know and care about), or for your environment (on which you depend for survival)鈥攊t is quite another matter to struggle on behalf of a cause that does not benefit you directly. As social justice activists, we must remember how ardently we wish that those in power would help bring change. The oppressed wish that those in power could empathize enough to understand the wrongness of what is happening, and how much they would need and appreciate the active participation of those in power to bring about a measure of justice. With regard to farmed animals, we are the ones who are in power. We are the ones who have the power to change our consumer habits. We are the ones who either put our money down for their lives, or boycott animal products.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“Oppressions are linked. We cannot free human beings without freeing cows, sows, and hens along with women and men who are systematically oppressed by those in power. Rather than seek to fight our way up the patriarchal ladder, those working for social justice need to dismantle hierarchies, and cease to exploit all those who are less powerful鈥攅ven if we must give up a few culinary favorites in the process. (Those who have taken up a plantbased diet for any measure of time never want for fabulous foods. From my experience, people who discover the vast array of wonderful plant-based foods that are readily available in most of our communities never look back.) Each of us decides, over the course of our daily lives, whether we will ignore the suffering of nonhuman animals who are caught in laboratories, veal crates, circuses, and slaughterhouses, or choose to invest in compassionate, healthy alternatives . . . . We choose where our money goes, and in the process, we choose whether to boycott cruelty and support change, or melt ambiguously back into the masses.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Lisa Kemmerer
“In the racist, sexist United States, nonwhite racialized minorities鈥攁nd women in particular鈥攁re subjected to more than their share of horrific violence, but no human being would wish to trade places with nonhuman animals in factory farms or laboratories. . . . The legal status of women and nonwhite racialized
minorities has improved markedly in the past fifty years; matters have grown considerably worse for nonhuman animals.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Violence is central to patriarchy, and Western society鈥檚 various forms of systemic violence are interconnected. Recognizing similarities across forms of oppression such as racism, child abuse, speciesism, and sexism, for example, is essential . . . . We can curb this tendency only if all forms of violence are exposed and challenged鈥攔ape and slaughter, rodeos and brothels. We cannot expect to put out a fire by removing only one coal.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Lisa Kemmerer
“Those who seek greater justice in our world need to work toward a deeper understanding of oppressions. Activists need to develop the kind of understanding that will lead to a lifestyle鈥攁 way of being鈥攖hat works against all oppressions.”
Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice