Kim Stallwood
@kimstallwood.bsky.social
Animal Rights Author & Independent Scholar. The British Library holds my archive. Tier im Recht has my collection. Writing the biography of Topsy the Elephant.
Read my Sunday rant about billionaires for free on my Substack Notes page. "All these billionaires. All this greed for more money. All this power play for political and economic control..." kimstallwood.substack.com/notes
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read my Sunday rant about billionaires for free on my Substack Notes page. "All these billionaires. All this greed for more money. All this power play for political and economic control..." kimstallwood.substack.com/notes
What do I have to say about animal rights? My biggest influences? When I worked in a chicken slaughterhouse? Why I became a vegan in 1976. Animal rights movement making progress? Read for free when Animal Politics with Ed Boks interviewed me on Substack. animalpolitics.substack.com/p/kim-stallw...
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What do I have to say about animal rights? My biggest influences? When I worked in a chicken slaughterhouse? Why I became a vegan in 1976. Animal rights movement making progress? Read for free when Animal Politics with Ed Boks interviewed me on Substack. animalpolitics.substack.com/p/kim-stallw...
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Please join me at the Vine Virtual Book Club to discuss my book, 2025: The Year of Topsy, on Sunday, October 26, at Noon (LA) or 3 pm (NY) or 7 pm (London). Please register to confirm your attendance and receive a free PDF of my book. vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-cl...
The last in my series of five articles looking back on interviews with authors of books about animal rights and vegan living. Today's theme is Narrative. Books with strong narratives of social justice for animals embedded in them. kimstallwood.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The last in my series of five articles looking back on interviews with authors of books about animal rights and vegan living. Today's theme is Narrative. Books with strong narratives of social justice for animals embedded in them. kimstallwood.substack.com
BIG SHOUT OUT to the latest issue of the online animal rights magazine, Animal Culture. The latest issue features ecofeminist Carol J Adams, animal behaviourist Marc Bekoff, and bird and wildlife rescue. www.patreon.com/c/animalcult...
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
BIG SHOUT OUT to the latest issue of the online animal rights magazine, Animal Culture. The latest issue features ecofeminist Carol J Adams, animal behaviourist Marc Bekoff, and bird and wildlife rescue. www.patreon.com/c/animalcult...
49 years ago this month, I began my international career in animal rights by becoming the campaign’s organiser (2nd f/t employee)of Compassion In World Farming. After 2 years as a vegetarian, prompted by working in a chicken slaughterhouse, I became a vegan at the beginning of 1976.
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
49 years ago this month, I began my international career in animal rights by becoming the campaign’s organiser (2nd f/t employee)of Compassion In World Farming. After 2 years as a vegetarian, prompted by working in a chicken slaughterhouse, I became a vegan at the beginning of 1976.
One looks with admiration. The other is inspired. Which is which doesn’t matter. la lutte continue
October 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One looks with admiration. The other is inspired. Which is which doesn’t matter. la lutte continue
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library. I recall how I persuaded the library to recognise the importance of animal rights and the value of my archive to be made publicly available to scholars, authors, advocates, and the public. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library. I recall how I persuaded the library to recognise the importance of animal rights and the value of my archive to be made publicly available to scholars, authors, advocates, and the public. kimstallwood.substack.com
Topsy Dreams of Home Part Three. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother about why humans are their greatest danger. "They always smell of tobacco, alcohol, and death." kimstallwood.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Topsy Dreams of Home Part Three. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother about why humans are their greatest danger. "They always smell of tobacco, alcohol, and death." kimstallwood.substack.com
Elephant Appreciation Day is today, 22 September 2025. Of course, every day deserves to be Elephant Appreciation Day. And every day, our compassion for animals leads us to live as vegans to help all animals, people, and the Earth. Read for free my dream for elephants at kimstallwood.substack.com.
September 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Elephant Appreciation Day is today, 22 September 2025. Of course, every day deserves to be Elephant Appreciation Day. And every day, our compassion for animals leads us to live as vegans to help all animals, people, and the Earth. Read for free my dream for elephants at kimstallwood.substack.com.
From animals in research to animals on racetracks, animal festivals to animals in agriculture, animals are exploited by the billions across the world. Read about my interviews with authors who exposed animal abuse and campaigned for animal liberation. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From animals in research to animals on racetracks, animal festivals to animals in agriculture, animals are exploited by the billions across the world. Read about my interviews with authors who exposed animal abuse and campaigned for animal liberation. kimstallwood.substack.com
140 years ago today, the first animal international superstar, the male African elephant called Jumbo, was accidentally struck and killed by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. Learn more about the Topsy Project at kimstallwood.substack.com.
September 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
140 years ago today, the first animal international superstar, the male African elephant called Jumbo, was accidentally struck and killed by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. Learn more about the Topsy Project at kimstallwood.substack.com.
Mary, a female Asian elephant, toured the USA with the Sparks World Famous Circus. An industrial derrick hung Mary at a railyard in front of 2,500 plus people on September 12, 1916. She killed her keeper, who beat her after she picked up a watermelon during circus parade. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Mary, a female Asian elephant, toured the USA with the Sparks World Famous Circus. An industrial derrick hung Mary at a railyard in front of 2,500 plus people on September 12, 1916. She killed her keeper, who beat her after she picked up a watermelon during circus parade. kimstallwood.substack.com
Topsy Dreams of Home Part Two. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother in a Southeast Asia jungle about the Elephant Mind. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Topsy Dreams of Home Part Two. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant, who became Topsy in the United States, learns from her mother in a Southeast Asia jungle about the Elephant Mind. kimstallwood.substack.com
Goodbye, Misty, the most-watched cat in the world. You had a glossy black coat with a white chest, matching white socks on your front feet, and a splash of white on your nose. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Goodbye, Misty, the most-watched cat in the world. You had a glossy black coat with a white chest, matching white socks on your front feet, and a splash of white on your nose. kimstallwood.substack.com
From Sue Coe to Zoe Weil via pattrice Jones, read about my interviews with these and other authors and their books about social justice. kimstallwood.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
From Sue Coe to Zoe Weil via pattrice Jones, read about my interviews with these and other authors and their books about social justice. kimstallwood.substack.com
Topsy Dreams of Home Part One. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant who became Topsy dreams of growing up in the jungle in Southeast Asia. kimstallwood.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Topsy Dreams of Home Part One. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. The baby elephant who became Topsy dreams of growing up in the jungle in Southeast Asia. kimstallwood.substack.com
Met up with Martin and Jessica Ullrich, with their son, Noah, and Jessica’s mother, Frederica, at Sissinghurst Castle. Martin is Professor of Interdisciplinary Music Research and Human-Animal Studies at Nuremberg University of Music. Jessica is an art historian at University of Fine Arts in Munster.
August 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Met up with Martin and Jessica Ullrich, with their son, Noah, and Jessica’s mother, Frederica, at Sissinghurst Castle. Martin is Professor of Interdisciplinary Music Research and Human-Animal Studies at Nuremberg University of Music. Jessica is an art historian at University of Fine Arts in Munster.
Discover the seven authors of books about animal ethics I interviewed recently. The diversity of these authors and their books on ways to think about our relationship with other animals and the natural world is wide and deep (philosophy, spirituality, politics, feminism). kimstallwood.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Discover the seven authors of books about animal ethics I interviewed recently. The diversity of these authors and their books on ways to think about our relationship with other animals and the natural world is wide and deep (philosophy, spirituality, politics, feminism). kimstallwood.substack.com
Remembering Tyke, the African elephant, shot to death on the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day, 20 August, in 1994. Read for free on my Substack at kimstallwood.substack.com.
August 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Remembering Tyke, the African elephant, shot to death on the streets of Honolulu, Hawaii, on this day, 20 August, in 1994. Read for free on my Substack at kimstallwood.substack.com.
48 years ago today, I was attending the Animals’ Rights conference at Trinity College, Cambridge, organised by the RSPCA. My first opportunity to hear Richard Ryder, Brigid Brophy, Clive Hollands, John Bryant, Andrew Linzey, and many others speak out for animals. kimstallwood.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
48 years ago today, I was attending the Animals’ Rights conference at Trinity College, Cambridge, organised by the RSPCA. My first opportunity to hear Richard Ryder, Brigid Brophy, Clive Hollands, John Bryant, Andrew Linzey, and many others speak out for animals. kimstallwood.substack.com
Topsy's Voice Part Four. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. She is in chains after killing a man who attacked her a couple of days ago. She climbs out of the Forepaugh Circus train. However, she is forced to defend herself against another man who approached with a large stick. kimstallwood.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Topsy's Voice Part Four. Imagining What Topsy Would Say. She is in chains after killing a man who attacked her a couple of days ago. She climbs out of the Forepaugh Circus train. However, she is forced to defend herself against another man who approached with a large stick. kimstallwood.substack.com
I answer five questions about Topsy on World Elephant Day. Available to read for free on Substack. kimstallwood.substack.com/p/five-quest...
August 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I answer five questions about Topsy on World Elephant Day. Available to read for free on Substack. kimstallwood.substack.com/p/five-quest...