Book Selection We'll be discussing selected pages from "Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood" by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado, with Steven M. Wise. Reading Assignment Don't worry about reading the entire book, we'll provide key selections that frame our discussion. A short PDF will be provided via email after registration. While we'll […]
Photography has long served as a bridge between worlds, revealing hidden realities, creating empathy, and inspiring action. In sanctuary and animal rights work, photographers face unique challenges: How do you capture the essence of an animal's story while respecting their autonomy? How do you create images that advocate without exploiting? What to Expect We'll examine […]
We want to devote our November Bite-Size Book Club session to discussing the work and legacy of Jane Goodall, who died on October 1st at the age of 91. She was a lifelong advocate for animals and animal rights, and a naturalist and researcher whose observations of chimpanzees in the wild broke important ground in […]
We had such a good discussion as we analyzed the wildlife photographs in our Fall 2025 Book Club session on “Photography as Advocacy” that we didn’t have time to look at sanctuary photography in the same detail. For the January BBC, we will take a close look at sanctuary photographs, including a selection from OMI, […]
In March, we’ll explore a BBC Reader centered on visual art and short literary segments created across time and place by artists and authors who portray animals in their work to raise environmental and ethical questions related to animal rights. Alongside a range of visual artworks, we’ll read excerpts from older texts, including The Animal’s […]
April will be “Putting the Book in Book Club” month! We’ll discuss two very famous and different novels using pigs as key characters, and both of our selections are still […]
For our May Movie discussion, we’re watching WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film about waste, loneliness, technology, love, and what it might mean to "come down to the ground." WALL-E is […]