Aphro-ism : essays on pop culture, feminism, and black veganism from two sisters / Aph Ko and Syl Ko.

Author
Ko, Aph [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Lantern Books, [2017]
Description
xxii, 176 pages ; 23 cm

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    Contents
    • Authors' notes
    • Acknowledgments
    • Foreword / by Amie Breeze Harper
    • Black lives, black life / by Syl Ko
    • Bringing our digital mops home : a call to black folks to stop cleaning up white folks' intellectual messes online / by Aph Ko
    • #allvegansrock : the all lives matter hashtag of veganism / by Aph Ko
    • By "human," everybody just means "white" / by Syl Ko
    • Why confusion is necessary for our activism to evolve / by Aph Ko
    • Women, beauty, and nature / by Syl Ko
    • Emphasizing similarities does nothing for the oppressed / by Syl Ko
    • Addressing racism requires addressing the situation of animals / by Syl Ko
    • Why black veganism is more than just being black and vegan / by Syl Ko and Aph Ko
    • Seven reasons why labels aren't necessarily the root of oppression / by Aph Ko and Syl Ko
    • We've reclaimed blackness : now it's time to reclaim "the animal" / by Syl Ko
    • Notes from the border of the human/animal divide : thinking and talking about animal oppression when you're not quite human yourself / by Syl Ko
    • Vegans of color and respectability politics : when eurocentric veganism is used to rehabilitate minorities / by Aph Ko
    • We can avoid the debate about comparing human and animal oppressions if we simply make the right connections / by Syl Ko
    • Why animal liberation requires an epistemological revolution / by Aph Ko
    • How social media serves as a digital defibrillator for the "American dream" / by Aph Ko
    • Re-valuing the human as a way to re-value the animal / by Syl Ko
    • Black veganism revisited / by Syl Ko
    • Creating new conceptual architecture : on afrofuturism, animality, and unlearning/rewriting ourselves / by Aph Ko
    • Afterword by carol j. adams
    • Notes
    • About the authors
    • About the publisher.
    ISBN
    • 9781590565551 ((pbk.))
    • 159056555X ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2017013836
    OCLC
    992579282
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