Challenging Racism and

Ableism within the Animal Liberation

Movement and Fighting for Total

Liberation

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D.

• Explaining Critical Animal Studies …

• My story …

• My activism …

• My scholarship …DIY and DIT

Normalcy is Violent

• Propaganda slide featuring a deformed infant. The caption reads "... because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.“

• Disabled Polish and Russian survivors stand in front of a tank from the 11th Armoured Division, Third U.S. Army, in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Purification

Testing EugenicsMedicineExperiments

ImprisoningArresting the homelessBecoming Mentally Ill in prison From Mental Ward to Jail

KillingExecutionAbortionAssisted Suicideeuthanasia

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The Oppressor Leading the Movement

Capitalism Reinforcing Normalcy

Individualism

Competitiveness

Efficiency

Production line

Consumer

Animal Testing

Service Animals

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American Flag: $23Gasoline:$2Cidarrete llighter: $1.50Catching yourself on fire because your a retarded terrorist: PRICELESS !!!

The state of the Arab Nation: Deaf regimes (left), blind terrorism (right), and mute masses (in between). (Emad Hajjaj, Alquds Alarabi, 11/12/03).

Opposed to Technology

Opposed to interdependency

Opposed to Capitalism

Against Transgender identity

Opposed to Civilization

Opposed to Domination and Oppression

Romanticizing the wild and Native