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Remember me? It has been quite a while.

Since I last wrote, I finished a whole module called Gender, Culture and Rights. In my essay, I wrote about gender and the meat industry – a feminist analysis à la Carol J. Adams – and responses from rights discourse – inviolable rights, animal labour rights, the limits of a rights framework. This month, I started my second year with The Ethics and Politics of Animals, which is what I came back to Goldsmiths for.

Long-time subscribers will remember my weekly newsletter documenting the first time I took this module, though a lot is new. Animal studies is a burgeoning field and things change and develop quite quickly for academia, which is exciting. I’ve also really enjoyed returning to some old readings nearly 2 years later. What a gift to return to a text and still be thrilled by it!

4 weeks is a lot to summarise in one email, and even leaving lots out, there’s a lot! Making up for lost time?

Hello readers,

I promised this would be an occasional surprise, and here we are. A newsletter has been bubbling up inside me for a few weeks, how nice to write to you because I want to.

You're receiving this because, at some point, you subscribed. If you are no longer interested, you can unsubscribe at any time. As a matter of ethics, I don’t collect any data.

The start of this year really took the wind out of me. My reading stats map uncannily onto mood/energy for the first 3 months.

Good morning friends and comrades,

I took an unannounced break from these. The break was planned, I just forgot to announce it. The reason for forgetting and the reason for the break are the same... I am doing Too Many Things. Alongside a demanding job, freelance work that won't go away and the masters, I am also training for an endurance cycling race, and moving house.

So I guess I'm back to say that this newsletter is one of the Too Many Things. I'm not ready to give it up completely, but it might become more an occassional surprise than a regular visitor to your inbox.

Saint Jerome Writing | Caravaggio

Morning comrades.

I have an essay question. Nothing to do with any of the readings this week, but harkening back to Jason Moore's paper from a few weeks ago. Here it is:

What contribution can Moore's attention to primitive accumulation make to our understanding of the politics of animals today?

The one and only Wadiwell for a taste of what kind of thing I'm going for.

It's reading week, which means fewer assigned readings and more random links. Polar opposite to last time, mostly just quotes for you today.

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The tuft of grass MINOR | Albrecht Durer

Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby

Happy Samhain!

It definitely feels like we're in the 'dark half of the year'. All I want to do is hibernate for the rest of the year. Wake me up in April.

In other news, my brain is EXPLODING. This newsletter is mostly me processing and summarising, fewer quotes than usual. Once again, if you want to read anything paywalled, just reply to this email and I'll share.

I send this fortnightly on Sunday and I don’t collect any data.

Good morning,

The work begins in earnest. Processing 2 weeks of lectures in one sitting is a lot. Useful, for me. To remember, to review my notes, and to put it in writing. I hope there is also something interesting for you.

I haven't linked to paywalled academic papers, but if you are interested in reading any of them, just respond to this email and I'm happy to share it.

I send this fortnightly on Sunday and I don’t collect any data.

Hello again friends and comrades,

I'M BACK! It’s been a while since I sent my first ever newsletter on Sept 22, 2019, halfway into my first master's. My second, Ecology, Culture & Society, is kicking off next week.

Previous seasons of this newsletter have been a chronicle of almost everything I read, from uni and elsewhere, books, articles, etc. I've decided to do things a little differently this time around.

There's was a peculiar side effect to including everything. I felt this pressure to mention every news cycle or crisis that was happening in the world (like the need to post on social media to show that you, too, are on the "right side"?). I was probably just sharing articles that you also saw on Twitter.