Read the Room
Vegan political education, critical animal studies, and animal liberation theory
Read the Room is where we break down and unpack scholarly works and academic ideas, making them accessible and actionable for our daily lives and collective liberation.
We’re passionate about this series because we know that revolutionary ideas can’t induce change if they’re locked behind academic walls. Theory must be understood to be transformative. Plus, scholars and grassroots animal rights advocates have much to learn from each other.
This is where those conversations take place.
Who is Read the Room for?
Organizers working across racial justice, abolition, disability justice, environmental justice, labor, food justice, and other movements who want to explore how animal exploitation operates within broader systems of power
Writers, artists, educators, and cultural workers interested in the human/animal divide, the political uses of animality, and the role of cultural work in challenging both
Animal advocates who want to challenge single-issue politics and examine how race, disability, gender, class, colonialism, and political economy inform the assumptions and strategies of animal advocacy
Students and emerging organizers interested in developing political analysis across distinct histories of violence and domination without treating them as interchangeable
People newer to animal politics who have begun asking questions about animals that their existing political frameworks haven’t fully answered
Past Events
Read the Room is APEX Advocacy's monthly political education series, bringing together organizers, educators, artists, and advocates to explore the intersections of animal justice with broader movements for liberation. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive invitations and register for each live session on a sliding-scale basis. Can't make it live? Every session is recorded, and full replays are available to APEX Patreon members.
Yvette Baker is writer, educator, social critic, and total liberation activist. Her work and activism have been devoted to critically examining the connections between human and beyond-human oppression through an Afro-Indigenous lens. As APEX’s Executive Director, she has made the decision to implement strategic political education in accessible ways to advance animal justice.
