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Munia Khan
“Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.”
Munia Khan

Norman Douglas
“The land is encrusted with ephemeral human conceits. That is not altogether good for a youngster; it disarranges his mind and puts him out of harmony with what is permanent. Just listen a moment. Here, if you are wise, you will seek an antidote. Taken in over-dose, all these churches and pictures and books and other products of our species are toxins for a boy like you. They falsify your cosmic values. Try to be more of an animal. Try to extract pleasure from more obvious sources. Lie fallow for a while. Forget all these things. Go out into the midday glare. Sit among rocks and by the sea. Have a look at the sun and stars for a change; they arc just as impressive as Donatello. Find yourself! You know the Cave of Mercury? Climb down, one night of full moon, all alone, and rest at its entrance. Familiarize yourself with elemental things. The whole earth reeks of humanity and its works. One has to be old and tough to appraise them at their true worth. Tell people to go to Hell, Denis, with their altar-pieces and museums and clock- towers and funny little art-galleries.”
Norman Douglas, South Wind

“I just mean that she鈥檚 different, you know? Not like us. She鈥檚 not so good with, hm, how do you say, human interaction and any trappings of decorum or rules. I suppose that鈥檚 why she prefers animals to people. Most animals don鈥檛 exchange hellos and ask how the other is. They just exist next to one another.鈥�

Yetu鈥檚 ears and skin perked at the sound of that. Oori preferred animals, did she?

鈥淧erfect, then. I鈥檓 not human,鈥� said Yetu. Though her foremothers were two-legs, she felt she had very little in common with these strange land walkers, whose teeth were weak and flat. 鈥淚 am animal.鈥�

Suka played with their breath in the back of their throat then pushed it through their mouth鈥攁 strange habit of the two-legs. It was too thoughtful to be a sigh. Too calm and content to be a groan. Just a sound, meaningless, as they considered what to say.

鈥淵es, but only animal-ish?鈥� they said, hedging.

Yetu didn鈥檛 understand what that could mean. She groaned, unable to keep track of it all. Without the vivid images of the rememberings, she was left only with outlines of memories, and even those were waning. Two-legs had specific ways of classifying the world that Yetu didn鈥檛 like. She remembered that, at least. They organized the world as two sides of a war, the two-legs in conflict with everything else. The way Suka talked about farming, it was as if they ruled the land and what it produced, as opposed to鈥攖hey鈥檇 just said it themselves鈥攅xisting alongside it.”
Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“Look at the humanity - we're wild animals, even without basic template of consciousness. Shame on us..”
Alexander Zalan, Inspiration Per Moment

“In Haraway鈥檚 work, queering animals means not only showing that animals sometimes have unreproductive sex. It means showing the political value of unhinging animality from its heretofore seamless relationship to the concept of a 鈥榥ature鈥� that is stable, predictable, and controllable.

Feminism has barely begun to denaturalize or queer animal sexualities. For instance, Carol Adams persuasively argues that the sexual objectification and consumption of animals and of women follow the same models鈥he proposes that feminism approach the animalizing of women and the feminization of animals in patriarchal culture as a unique opportunity, namely the chance to study the oppression of animals as a particular symptom of androcentric social organization. However, Adams鈥檚 work on the visual culture aspect of meat consumption is devoted to exposing the logic and structure of a pattern of oppression and exploitation, a position depending on one important assumption: that humans are the only actors in this practice. The structure of her argument makes power and privilege pretty unambiguously distinguishable from subjugation. In that sense, it offers rather limited resources for a post- or neo-Foucauldian feminist analysis of power, desire, and norms, the production of truths and practices, and the complexities of self-care.”
Margret Grebowicz, Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway