Blog – Page 20 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Is Nudity a Prerequisite for Vegan Women’s Strength?

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 30, 2016December 21, 2018

On International Women's Day, PETA reaffirmed in a March, 2013 blog post (since deleted) that strong women in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement are those who pose naked and sexualized for the presumed male audience. According toContinue reading

Essays

Selling Cancer to Beat Cancer? When Nonvegan Foods Go Pink for Profit

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 24, 2016January 4, 2019

Vegan theory acknowledges not only the systematic violence imposed on vulnerable Nonhuman Animals but also the tendency for this oppression to intersect with the suffering of vulnerable humans. One such instance occurs in the pink ribbon "findContinue reading

Essays

Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn featured on Maine Public Radio

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 14, 2016

Dr. Corey Lee Wrenn was featured on Maine public radio, Animal Sounds on WMPG 90.9FM on July 13th, 2016 to discuss Vegan Feminist Network advocacy strategies. In this 30 minute program Dr. Wrenn addresses intersections ofContinue reading

Interviews

What Black Lives Matter Can Teach White Vegans

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 12, 2016September 9, 2018

Content Warning: Post discusses racism, sexism, and a number of other forms of discrimination, as well as the Nonhuman Animal rights movement's protection of discriminatory attitudes and tactics. This is a story about symbols and solidarity. ItContinue reading

Essays

Unnecessarily Gendered Vegan Food

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 10, 2016January 26, 2019

"Organic Girl Good Clean Greens," because only women eat organic? Perhaps because it challenges a controlling and hierarchical relationship with the environment, organic consumption and food products are often feminized. Men dominate the environment, forceContinue reading

Essays

PETA & Papa John’s Team Up Against Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJune 30, 2016December 30, 2018

In 2013, PETA announced that it has been purchasing stock in American pizza chain Papa John's with the hope of leveraging this ownership to influence policy changes. This should concern animal allies, as grants and donationsContinue reading

Essays

If You Care about Animals, In-Vitro Meat is Not the Answer

Dr. Corey WrennMay 30, 2016December 21, 2018

Posed as the perfect neoliberal solution to relieving speciesism while protecting markets and consumer desires, a number of non-profits have positioned themselves in support of in vitro research in pursuit of "lab grown meat." However,Continue reading

Essays

Rebuilding and Reusing Rescue Dogs

Dr. Corey WrennMay 22, 2016January 4, 2019

Anti-speciesism theorist Norm Phelps once noted that cat and dog "overpopulation" is a product of capitalism. That is, human society breeds these animals as designer products for purchase. The capitalist system relies on constant productionContinue reading

Essays

Named 2015-16 Recipient of Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, CSU Dept. of Sociology

Dr. Corey WrennMay 5, 2016May 5, 2016

I am so grateful and pleased to announced that I have been selected as the 2015-16 recipient of the Graduate Student Research Excellence Award by the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. In additionContinue reading

Recognition

White Women Wanted? Research Uncovers Diversity Strains in Vegan Media Spaces

Dr. Corey WrennApril 24, 2016February 8, 2019

A two-part content analysis I began in 2012 has just been published in Societies and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. The first study, published in JAEE examined media diversity in the Nonhuman AnimalContinue reading

Publications

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