It’s Not Intersectional, It’s DxE: An Exposé Written By DxE’s Victims

This is a very interesting post! As someone who has gone on events with DxE, I had no idea of the realities behind the organization!

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Dear Animal Rights Community,

The misery, torture, and sheer suffering animals endure at the hands of our capitalist economy has outraged us. We have all seen gruesome footage of what it means to be an animal in the modern day factory farm and have chosen to side with compassion. We have made a decision to work towards creating a world where animal oppression is no longer a reality. We, as animal rights activists, do our best to ensure that animals’ voices are represented, that animals are given the dignity they deserve, and that our fellow humans are awakened to the unfathomable violence embedded in their everyday choices.

As activists in the animal rights community, we also recognize that the suffering of humans, based on systems of power and privilege rooted in colonialism, is very much connected to animal oppression. Therefore, we acknowledge the necessary social justice activism baseline of intersectionality…

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Bloody doctors.

It’s one of those nights, dark and lonely, where I feel like the pain in my chest is going to make me explode.

I found a letter today dated 2012 from my old school. The letter was to my parents from my headmistress, saying how she didn’t think that I could continue studying for my GCSE’s due to my “fragile mental state”.

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Action plan!

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This is nice, I’m sitting by the beach again with a kitty curled up on my lap. I really felt awful last night, so I’m glad that today I’m feeling a little better! My constant mood fluctuations are extremely irritating and difficult but I’m getting used to them and can sort of predict when they’re coming!

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