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animaliais a 42 year old, other / not disclosed male.
Living in los angeles/ nyc/toronto, california
Vegan diet.
I am a vegan primarily in search of compassionate fellow-animal lovers- those who genuinely care for the welfare of animals and strive to live ethically for them and hence to make the world a better place for both animals and humans. I set considerable store by cooking and baking healthy (esp. low-fat and raw) vegan food and sharing it with people. I have just moved from Yale to a research university in California (LA).
I tend to see connections between the ethics informing my care for animals and that informing my care for humans. More specifically, I have begun to adapt my vegan thought to include a strong non-patriarchal 'feminist' component - one that challenges mainstream and/or heterosexist/normative models of relationships....More broadly, veganism and the burgeoning thinking around it has led me question sedimented and conventional conceptual boundaries between human as well as between human and non human animals. Hence, my interest in non-human agency, posthumanism - esp. Cary Wolfe...At the same time, my veganism has led me to revisit and discover (much to my dismay) the ways in which writers I admire in my field have exploited the "animal" or animality as a means of foregrounding the human....
I value conversations on a range of topics (from animal welfare to lesbianism, from Latin classics to T.S. Eliot, from the politics of food to the problems with heteronormative institutions, from intersectional work across disciplines such as critical animal studies, sociology, and ethics). I enjoy conversations that challenge my ever evolving value-system and present me with valid and relevant counterclaims. In addition to English, I can speak German fluently, can read and write and speak Italian haltingly. I can read Latin (and do it for my profession) as well.
I have been researching perfume or smelling as a way of knowing, remembering and relating to the world of beings human and non-human. I have been looking at among other things the perfume industry (its historical links to the spice and leather industry) not just in the context of vast global commercial brand-names but , more importantly, in relation to small local 'atelier' environmentally friendly producers (such as Le Labo and Anthropologie). One of my goals is to see the intersections of the ethical and the aesthetic (specially with regard to animals, human labor) in the production and distribution of perfumes....
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