The only weakness of the book in my view is that since it's a bundle of earlier written blogs and essays, that were edited for this book, it contains some repetitions and redundancies. Aph and Syl Ko are incredible activists and revolutionary thinkers who have influenced the way we approach animal rights and anti-racist activism. There is seemingly nothing worse for an activist than being introduced to a new perspective or theory that challenges the way you've been doing things. The word "animal" will then take on negative connotations, and parallels can easily be drawn between the oppression of animals and the oppression of minoritised groups.

While they may be considered "provocative" and "controversial" in the mainstream, new ideas are paramount to our own growth, as individuals and as a society. As she so eloquently demonstrates, we should not treat human beings like ‘animals’ any more than we should treat animals like ‘animals.The authors seamlessly tie together theories of race and animal liberation to critique the existing (white dominated) animal rights movement (among other topics), and provide guidelines (and hope!

If you have any interest at all in a discussion on race, species, power structure, and how they might be connected, I encourage you to read these essays. She is the author of Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out, [7] which was described by UK Center for Animal Law as "Establishing the connection between white supremacy and animal use, Ko urges a new form of resistance.Most well-intentioned activists who use memes featuring a lynched black person and a lynched nonhuman animal are missing the point: What makes the physical violation of these bodies possible is their citizenship of the space of the Other or the “subhuman. Non eurocentric conceptual resources” mean people view the world in a fundamentally different way to those of us in Europe or influenced by colonial legacy.