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María R. Carreras, PhD
@mariaruiz.bsky.social
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Researching & writing about #journalism #StrategicCommunication #lobbies #CriticalAnimalStudies 🌱 
Interested in #intersectionality, #ecofeminism, free radios, art, #zines, #veganism & #hcpunk
📍Galway / 📍Malmö
Instagram: @the.vegan.journalist
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Revista LECA es una de las poquísimas revistas académicas en el mundo dedicadas a los Estudios Críticos Animales. Llevan años haciendo un trabajo increíble, ¡de manera totalmente voluntaria! Son una herramienta esencial para que la ciencia pueda avanzar de un modo antiespecista.
AYUDANOS a financiar nuestro DOl Nuestra revista existe gracias al trabajo colectivo y voluntario de quienes la hacemos posible. No recibimos financiamiento institucional ni contamos con recursos fijos: lo que la sostiene es la convicción compartida de crear un espacio libre, crítico y comprometido con las luchas que habitamos. Por eso, la obtención de un DOl para nuestros artículos no es solo un paso técnico, sino una forma de fortalecer nuestra autonomía, garantizar la visibilidad de nuestras voces y seguir construyendo conocimiento desde abajo y en común.
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Cada 1 de noviembre, coincidiendo con el Día Mundial del Veganismo, Madrid se convierte en el epicentro del activismo antiespecista.
@infoanimal.bsky.social en @elsaltodiario.com @elsaltomadrid.bsky.social
#antiespecismo #veganismo
elsal.to/noviembre-antiespecista
Una persona con una camiseta negra en la que se puede leer "Animal Liberation" en letras blancas se manifiesta en una de las convocatorias de años anteriores. Al fondo, más manifestantes, edificios de Madrid y un cielo con gradiente de azul a blanco.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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El Congreso rechaza la toma en consideración de la @noesmicultura.org, la iniciativa legislativa popular más respaldada de la historia de España.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Creo que mientras se debate el futuro de la tauromaquia, conviene recordar que el rechazo social a la tauromaquia tiene raíces profundas en nuestra historia.

📸: @aitorgarmendia.bsky.social
Un toro muerto o moribundo es arrastrado y se desangra sobre el suelo.
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies. "Comics and Animal Studies"
From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic.«
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
Thematic Section: »Animal Studies« The visual language of comics offers unique possibilities for rethinking and representing animals and human-animal relationships. Colors, styles, and focalization can be employed to explore and question the boundaries between human and non-human lifeworlds. Medium-specific gaps resist fixed anthropocentric determination. On additional formal levels, comic artists can experimentally rearrange the sequencing of panels, signs, and narrative threads to create multispecies narratives and thus reflect animality and animal perspectives as independent forms of experience (José 2020, 326–334). Many research perspectives can connect to this framework: How does the media phenomenology of comics challenge our anthropocentric perception and interpretation of human-animal relationships? What happens when animals move beyond trauma-induced costuming (Batman) or the appropriation of animal characteristics (Spider-Man) (cf. Schatz & Parson 2017)? When should animal representations in comics be understood as metaphors (MAUS), as anthropomorphizations of real animals (Pride of Baghdad), or as indeterminately fantastic hybrid beings (Donald, Mickey, Goofy)? How much animality actually remains in these latter cases beyond pure graphic design? More importantly, what political potentials and programs can emerge from these – or other – representational strategies? Human-Animal Studies, emerging as an interdisciplinary research field in the 1980s in the Anglo-American sphere, can address such questions among others. The field established itself as an independent academic discourse approximately 10 years later. The research field is relatively young but has gained relevance in recent years, both within its own domain and through intersectional connections with fields such as Postcolonial Studies and the Environmental Humanities. At the same time, Critical Animal Studies developed as a political-activist movement that seeks an explicit connection (...)
September 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Reminder that you can download for free our book "Reimagining Species Relations: A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund University" here:
lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...

#speciesism #antispeciesism #vegan #veganism #animals #criticalanimalstudies
Cover of the book with a drawing of a crocodile in greyscale.
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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It’s the 4th anniversary of my PhD defense!! 😎🥳 🍾🥂
In case you wanna read a tiny and digestible part of that research: trace.journal.fi/article/down...
July 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Really enjoying my summer read, the Engelsfors trilogy, by Mats Strandberg & Sara B. Elfgren. I hear that it's been called the Swedish Buffy the Vampire Slayer 😄 It is a young adult fantasy that you will love if you are into witchy stuff, and appreciate a feminist, inclusive edge ✨
July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Call for Chapters: The Lund Critical Animal Studies Collection II
Theme: From Radical Theories to Revolutionary Practices – Bridging Academia & Activism for Total Liberation.
Abstract deadline: 15 Aug 2025
tobias.linne@iko.lu.se
Full chapter: May 2026
#CriticalAnimalStudies
We are seeking contributions exploring Critical Animal Studies and Total Liberation as living, activist frameworks—across species, systems & struggles. Topics include: 🌱 Mutual aid & care 🔥 Direct action & civil disobedience 🌍 Global South & decolonial perspectives 🏳️‍⚧️ Queer/trans critiques of speciesism 🚫 Prison abolition & anti-militarism 🎨 Art, storytelling & world-building 📚 Critiques of academia, neoliberalism & reformism
May 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Yet at another fabulous #EACASconference with the CAE girls ❤️ This time Laura Fernández, Iana Fishova and myself "representing" the alma mater 🥹🥰
Thanks for everything @eacas.bsky.social ! #criticalanimalstudies
May 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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It's time to rethink our choices: #Soymilk offers a more sustainable, protein-packed alternative. #Dairy
Cow's mil has a much bigger footprint than plant-based milks.
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Yay! I'm going to #EACAS2025! Who else is attending? 🦔
#CriticalAnimalStudies #EstudiosCríticosAnimales #ÉtudesCritiquesdesAnimaux #ÉtudesCritiquesAnimalières
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Screenshot of EACAS website with the call for papers for the next EACAS Conference (Berlin, 2-4 May 2025)
February 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The GU-CAS network (Uni of Gothenburg's Network for Critical Animal Studies in the Anthropocene) welcomes you to an online seminar with Associate Professor Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel Thursday 2 November: "Factory Farms for Fishes: Critically Understanding the Development of Industrial Aquaculture"
October 16, 2023 at 5:03 PM