Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

Synopsis

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. Aph Ko And Syl Ko. Includes Bibliographical References.