Brigitte Gemme, founder of Vegan Family Kitchen, has released her first book on vegan cooking. The release of Flow in the Kitchen: Practices for Healthy Stress-Free Vegan Cooking is the natural next step to Vegan Family Kitchen, a podcast and subscription-based site dedicated to sharing tools and resources for nutritious, family-friendly vegan cooking. Gemme has … Continue reading Book Review: Flow in the Kitchen
Book Review: The Nap-Away Motel
Set along a worn strip of road in the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, serving as the central location of Nadja Lubiw-Hazard’s debut novel The Nap-Away Motel. Written with passion and warmth, The Nap-Away Motel follows the narratives of four main characters and their intersecting lives. Suleiman, a compassionate man mourning the death … Continue reading Book Review: The Nap-Away Motel
Book Review: Justice for Animals
It’s hard to believe that a book titled Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility would be written by an author who does not adamantly support - nay actively rebuffs - veganism, but here we are. So let’s get into it. Martha C. Nussbaum is a philosopher whose repertoire includes titles like From Disgust to Humanity: … Continue reading Book Review: Justice for Animals
Book Review: Confessions of an Animal Rights Terrorist
The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the infamous annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups, mostly killed by blunt force trauma sustained from hakapiks or by gunfire. Karen Levenson’s provocatively titled memoir Confessions of an Animal Rights Terrorist provides an informed, yet rarely intimate, look at the life of a women trapped between … Continue reading Book Review: Confessions of an Animal Rights Terrorist
Book Review: Feeding the Soul
Tabitha Brown, dubbed “America’s Mom”, is perhaps known best for her fun, accessible vegan recipes and engaging internet persona. Brown’s debut memoir, Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business), incorporates these elements while also sharing intimate details of Brown’s life journey. First and foremost, this is not a particularly vegan book. In fact, many purists … Continue reading Book Review: Feeding the Soul
Book Review: Earthlings
Peridot Watkins is a precocious teen with a penchant for adventure. Growing up on a remote island without access to the outside world has left Peridot at odds with her aggressively protective mother. A chance meeting with a young refugee from the mainland offers Peridot a window into a dystopian Planet Earth. Humans are no … Continue reading Book Review: Earthlings
Book Review: How to Love Animals In a Human-Shaped World
Henry Mance’s How to Love Animals In a Human-Shaped World is one of the most accessible pro-vegan texts to come out in recent years. In How to Love Animals, Mance takes a relatively moderate (some may even say safe) approach to animal rights, perhaps to avoid alienating non-vegans. Though that is not to say that … Continue reading Book Review: How to Love Animals In a Human-Shaped World
Book Review: Queer + Trans Voices
Queer + Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression is a project based on a simple premise: what does it mean to be an LGBTQIA+ vegan? Editors J. Feliz Brueck and Z. McNeill seek to answer this question by compiling this series of essays by LGBTQIA+ members of the vegan community. The essayists in Queer … Continue reading Book Review: Queer + Trans Voices
Book Review: Once Upon A Time We Ate Animals
When reading a new book about veganism, I always feel compelled to ask “What new light on veganism does this author have to shed?”. While reading Once Upon A Time We Ate Animals by Roanne van Voorst, I found myself returning to this question. The book provides a nonfiction account of vegan living while interspersed … Continue reading Book Review: Once Upon A Time We Ate Animals
Book Review: Bear Boy
Justin Barker discovered his love for animals and knack for animal activism as a middle schooler living in the suburbs of Northern California. Despite school bullying, family strife, and an ongoing identity crisis, Barker was motivated to advocate for animals after picking up a copy of Ingrid Newkirk’s Kids Can Save the Animals! 101 Easy … Continue reading Book Review: Bear Boy
Tofu Reader 