The Free

Roxane Gay, born in 1974 in Omaha, Nebraska, to a family of Haitian descent, is an American professor, author, editor, and commentator. She began writing essays as a teenager; her writing was sparked by having survived a sexual assault at age twelve. Her higher education was interrupted by a relationship, but she returned to school and went on to receive a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a PhD in rhetoric and communication from Michigan Technological University. She began her academic career teaching English at Eastern Illinois University; while there, she was a contributing editor for Bluestem magazine, founded Tiny Hardcore Press, and started to produce short stories, essays, and novels. Her fiction and nonfiction explore a variety of issues and challenges relating to race, gender, and sexual identity, and also delve into privilege, body image, and the immigrant experience.

Gay’s fiction…

In Germany alone, 40,000 piglets end up in the rubbish bins every day, they are rubbish and are not needed.
Per day!
Half dead, lying helplessly dying, they die a painful, slow death after being hit on the floor.
The cattle are hung by one leg, their necks cut off, millions of animals die the same gruesome death for minutes, not just at a week-long festival, but every day.
Only these “other” animals were not declared as pets by humans.
One wonders if Yulin would get that much attention when it came to pigs or calves.

Of course, the Yulin massacre is not justified by the fact that it could be worse in every country with different “animal species”.

ALL animals have the same feelings and exactly the same right to a happy life without suffering and without being killed for their bodies in the end.
The same pain is…

@ Desinformemonos

On June 20^th, “Squadron 421” arrived at the Bay of Bayona, Galicia, in the Spanish State aboardLa Montaña. On June 22^nd, after 47 days crossing the Atlantic, the seven EZLN delegates landed in the European country amid a reception that included activists, artists, support groups of the Zapatista movement in that country, among others.

Upon their arrival they were received by a group of people with banners and some boats“with compas from rebellious Europe”who went to greet them. In addition, the Spanish Civil Guard went to “La Montaña” to do“routine checks.”

In the“Llegamos”communiqué it stated:“The European sky cries, moved. Its tears are confused with those that moisten the cheeks – tanned by the sun, sea, anguish and adrenaline – of the intrepid 421 Squadron. In their steps, in their glances, in their heartbeats, the Mayan peoples…