I grew up very near an area of North Carolina that infamously had a billboard until the late 1970s that read, “This is KKK Country, Love It or Leave it” and “Help Fight Communism & Integration.” Even when I lived there from the late-80s until the mid-00s, it was an area of overt anti-Blackness, anti-immigrants (especially those from Mexico), and homophobia. I was not immune to that type of ignorance and hatred. I did not begin to reckon with my own oppressive beliefs and behaviors until I graduated high school in 2003, when I began listening to punk and hardcore music.

My interests in animal rights and anarchism started when I was in college. I received a BA in Political Science in 2012, and then I recently received an MA in Applied Sociology in 2022. My interests now have become more focused, but also have extended to other particular areas. Currently, I like to write about veganism, nonhuman liberation + human liberation + Earth liberation, anti-natalism, anti-speciesism, and practical and theoretical ways in which the Left and the nonhuman liberation movement can and should necessitate one another.

As for the future, I hope to write another book with a heavily critical eye toward the political Left. I hope to develop a strain of Leftism called the Critical Left, which, I hope, will show how there are many aspects within the Left that have noble goals but actually stunt the movement and sometimes even result in a subtle regressiveness. Ultimately, the message of that book, and also the message of my current book, centers the dire need to address the global climate emergency and end the oppression of nonhuman animals, humans, and the Earth…