If looks could kill, Maggie, the black and white cat who lives around here, would be long dead. What a glare I give her when she does that insouciant late afternoon wander down the hill, heading for her evening feed of the …
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Photo credit: Mona Pyke
rabbit
kitten small as a toy
easter bauble bare cold body
stiff in the shade of hydrangeas
pricked ears grey fuzzed fur hardened flesh
kittens
weaning flat-scatter run
low under that old hydrangea
dead baby rabbit gone and more
blue grey feathers
Animal Studies Journal 14(2)
My critical autoethnography questions the discursive practices surrounding the consumption of domesticated junglefowl, birds scientifically known as Gallus domesticus and commonly known as ‘meat’ or chicken. I investigate the degree to which language might matter when it comes to the fate faced …
Animal Studies Journal 14(2). Photo of Sienna taken by Elaine Rollo
Patriarchy’s brutality. A father, ‘implacable and terrifying’ (37). A husband’s interior horror show with the ‘unending discomfort of a cold, monotonous dream’ (95). A woman with a ‘confined foggy, numbing’ pain that explodes into agony (259). Nothing about this book is easy.
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