HeyJaredThe Literary Animal Project
A habitat for curated conversations, questions and writing about the ways animal lives are portrayed on the page, and how we forge a more just and compassionate multi-species world.
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207-Mile March to Abolish Animal Testing (opens the original)
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My Dear Literary Animals,A few months ago, I had listened to Gretchen Primack, literary animal, poet, bookseller, and activist extraordinaire, on the Our Hen House Podcast, as she announced her pie in the sky idea to march from the NY’s capital in Albany to Marshall BioResources, which breeds animals for medical testing. Gretchen was fired up after participating in a recent action at a similar facility in Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin, where she and other protestors were doused with pepper spray an
Upcoming Confluences (opens the original)
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My Dear Literary Animals,I returned from Toronto inspired by the confluence of infrastructure, public art, nature, and play at The Lassonde Art Trail in Biidaasige Park, at the newly reconstructed mouth of the Don River. One of the art pieces in this trail is LODESTAR, by my friend Lisa Hirmer.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AlDN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimage
All Roads Lead to Leonora Carrington (opens the original)
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My Dear Literary Animals,“Coincidences like these propelled me forward in life.” This is a line from Madhur Anand’s brilliant and clever novel To Place a Rabbit. (We are doing a joint book event in Toronto on 8/21 —details down below!) When I first read those words, I recognized them as something intrinsic to my writing and research practice. I pay attention when multiple sources point me toward a particular subject. These coincidences I call confluences. Madhur calls them synchronicity.Recently
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