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Toronto: Raccoon City

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Grief

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“So Long and Thanks for Nothing” in Evergreen Review

Tell people that “Mother Earth” is wounded and needs their help, and wallets open. Tell them that the problem with the environment is a result of multiple capitalist systems crashing and burning at once, and eyes glaze over. 

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Piglet

Excerpt: I did a double take and checked: yes, a pig. 

Is that a small village or just a really big pig?
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Animals On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

A “Min-terview” with Current Affairs, Where I Am Confronted about My Kitten-Eating Habits and I Also Take on the World of Publishing

A great book is like the memory of an excellent conversation: it lasts and returns in intangible ways for years and shifts your thinking. 

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Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Aping Revolution: Nostalgia Trap Episode on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

All that and James Franco!

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Wickett

“he was a good friend, and a good friend gone still is.”

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Frida Is Dead, and I Am Undone

I am completely undone, and am facing, for the first time in many years, life without one of my two great loves.

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“Racism and the American Pit Bull” My Review of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.

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My Piece on “Racism and the American Pit Bull” Is Now Online at Current Affairs

The links between “animality” and race have always been vividly present even if never explicitly discussed.