Keith was an early public advocate of the U.S. local food movement. In a 2006 Boston Globe human interest story, she said, "I like knowing that I'm supporting the local economy, and not corporate America." [6]

Enke, Anne. 2007. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space and Feminist Activism. Durham: Duke University Press.

What the heck are we supposed to do?

As transgender rights gain acceptance, radical-feminist views have been shunned. Illustration by Alex Williamson. J – I grew up with a love of the natural world. I would go camping and go out in nature and see all the creatures we share the planet with. At the same time for much of my life I was unaware of the destruction that was happening. When I was 16 I watched a documentary called Revolution and learned for the first time that we’re in a mass extinction and the amount of life that is being lost and the devastation that is taking place because of this insane culture. That completely changed my life. I came out of the theatre and decided this is what I have to dedicate my life to. I’m going to work on this and do something about it. I started making documentaries about a week after that. It’s no longer about saving those wild places and wild being, it’s become – we need another fuel source – so that we can continue to destroy wild beings and wild places, we don’t want to stop the destruction anymore, we just want to find a better way to fuel that destruction. There were a bunch of people who tried to bring in the emergency of climate change into the main stream. I certainly appreciate those efforts, that’s a really emergency, it’s not the only emergency and I don’t even think it’s the primary emergency. I think it’s a symptom of the other emergency, that bigger emergency, that life is being eaten.

S – Now I’m going to shift our focus to women. You’re both radical feminists. Do you see the role of feminism in your vision of the environmental movement? The planet has been skinned alive. And the only reason we have not hit complete collapse is because we’ve been eating fossil fuel since 1950. This is not a plan with a future as peak oil is probably behind us and we are on the downside of Hubbert’s curve.

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Cahill, Maud, and Christine Dann, eds. 1991. Changing our Lives: Women Working in the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1970–1990. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books Limited. We are on the biggest draw down and overshoot that could ever have been imagined, the entire thing has gone global. There is a 3rd choice here which is protecting life on Earth which is actually defending the wild and that means this way of life has to stop but that’s the thing nobody can say out loud. Her views have attracted negative attention from some vegetarians, what one journalist has called a "Vegan War". [7] Illustrative of the heated political debate, protesters hit Keith with chili pepper-laced pies during a presentation of her book The Vegetarian Myth at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. [8] The Vegetarian Myth [ edit ] What were some of the health concerns you experienced from consuming a vegan diet, and that your readers have shared with you? And should we be eating soy?

L – That’s the basis of patriarchy. Once men invent private property, and then they want to hand it down the male lineage, they have to control women. Every woman knows whether she has had a baby or not. We know who the mother is. There’s no way you cannot know. It’s not true for men. Paternity is a much more sketchy prospect. Livingstone, Sonia. 2005. On the Relation Between Audiences and Publics. In Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere: Changing Media, Changing Europe Volume 2, ed. Sonia Livingstone, 17–42. Bristol: Intellect. I will not call a male “she”; thirty-two years of suffering in this androcentric society, and of surviving, have earned me the title “woman”; one walk down the street by a male transvestite, five minutes of his being hassled (which he may enjoy), and then he dares, he dares to think he understands our pain? No, in our mothers’ names and in our own, we must not call him sister. Many people become vegetarian/vegan because of concerns over animal welfare. How do you now reconcile caring for animals along with consuming meat? And is industrial agriculture a viable solution?So to me, it’s the moment our brains got to that level of consciousness, the first thing we did was say thank you. All of that art is a celebration of our existence here and a way to think about it and try to express it. One of the women Raymond wrote about was Sandy Stone, a performance artist and academic who this fall will teach digital arts and new media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. When Raymond’s book was published, Stone was a recording engineer at Olivia Records, a women’s-music collective in Los Angeles. In the late sixties, after graduating from college, and while still living as a man, she had bluffed her way into a job at New York’s famed Record Plant recording studio, where she worked with Jimi Hendrix and the Velvet Underground. (For a time, she slept in the studio basement, on a pile of Hendrix’s capes.) She moved to the West Coast and transitioned in 1974. Olivia approached her soon afterward; experienced female recording engineers were hard to find.

Each journey is unique. Each path follows its own, distinctive, route. Yet there are common elements. Besides the mass extinction, it’s inherently unsustainable. When you remove the perennial polyculture–the grassland or the forest–the soil is exposed and it dies. It turns to desert ultimately.

We’re going to have to remember there are better ways and there are people still here who can help us. We’re going to have to learn to listen to them and approach this with a lot more humility. Having rejected this supposition, radical feminists now find themselves in a position that few would have imagined when the conflict began: shunned as reactionaries on the wrong side of a sexual-rights issue. It is, to them, a baffling political inversion.