February 7, 2014 “Intersectional Social Justice: From the Shoes on Your Feet to the Food You Eat”

This engaging talk from nationally respected scholar-activist Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D. explains why all social justice issues—such as racial, environmental, animal, disability, youth, queer, and women’s justice—are interconnected and why we cannot merely read and write about them. Rather, we must organize and resist in the streets in radical, creative, and transformative ways. This conversation will begin with theory and end with explaining how the audience can pragmatically address their own privilege, domination, and oppressive behaviors on a daily basis.

 

Bio: Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., an intersectional scholar and community organizer. Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters; co-founded the fields of eco-ability and critical animal studies; co-founded and directs the Institute for Critical Animal Studies; edits the Peace Studies Journal; and has published more than fifteen books including Earth, Animal and Disability Liberation: The Rise of the Eco-ability Movement (2012), The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination (2011), and The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement (2013). In 2009, he, along with incarcerated youth in New York, founded Save the Kids, a leading national grass-roots organization working to dismantle the school to prison pipeline. His areas of interest include social justice education, disability studies, Hip Hop, transformative justice, and peace and conflict studies. His Web site is www.anthonynocella.org.