The Vegan Ideal

The Biotic Woman: Talking About Transphobia and Ecofeminism With Ida Hammer

Social Commentary post by Brittany Shoot on February 19, 2010 - 12:50pm; tagged animal rights, cissexism, ecofeminism, Ida Hammer, The Biotic Woman, The Vegan Ideal, trans identity, trans inclusion, transphobia, vegetarianism.
Ida Hammer has been writing The Vegan Ideal for several years as a way to examine and deconstruct overlapping oppressions. Her work centers on undoing transphobia in vegetarian and ecofeminist communities. Ida was kind of enough to speak with me recently about how cissexual privilege undermines a lot of ecofeminist writing and how she has carved safe space for herself in a sometimes very anti-trans movement.
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