In Context with pattrice jones at is a bi-weekly half hour talk show that looks at timely questions facing animal advocates within the broader ecosystem of ideas about social and environmental justice.
Each show features pattrice introducing a topic by way of one of the animals at VINE before inviting a featured guest into a free-flowing discussion about their own work on the topic at hand.
The podcast comes to you from VINE Sanctuary, an LGBT-led farmed animal sanctuary in Vermont that works for social and environmental justice as well as for animal liberation.
Eloísa Trinidad is a co-founder of the Vegan Activist Alliance (https://www.veganactivistalliance.org/) and director of Chilis on Wheels. (https://www.chilisonwheels.org/) She joins pattrice for a conversation about the history and future of these two organizations, and the importance of looking at animal activism as part of a project of collective liberation.
25 May 2023
Reimagining Community with LoriKim Alexander
LoriKim Alexander, organizer of Black FegVest, kickass activist for QTBIPOC liberation, and biologist, joins pattrice jones on In Context to talk about turkeys, urban nature, and The Cypher (https://itsthecypher.org/), a Black femme-focused and led QTBIPOC collective with the goal of forwarding Black Trans and Queer liberation with a vegan and environmental justice praxis.
The Cypher will be hosting a herb walk for QTBIPOC folks in New York City on June 10th, and you can register here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc85a68vTw-ay2ax61kLlx_qMP908vrC65No6JgD8Bak--RWw/viewform).
10 May 2023
Mother's Day Special: Louder Than Words on Art as Activism (Re-Release)
In honor of Mother's Day we are re-releasing this episode featuring Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman, the founders of Louder Than Words who use art to showcase the dairy industry's particular cruelty to mothers.
You can order free anti dairy stickers Louder Than Words created with VINE here: t.ly/LkWEr
15 Feb 2023
Broken Bonds with Katherine Roe
Neuroscientist Katherine Roe joins pattrice to discuss the cruelty and flawed premises behind animal experimentation, the importance of attachment, and what people can do about the ongoing experiments that separate newborns from their mothers.
Please note that this episode includes descriptions of vivisection that may be uncomfortable to hear. Katherine and pattrice also discuss ways to cope with our own emotions as we confront the cruelty of others.
16 Jan 2023
Human Error with Justin Gregg
What can animal intelligence teach us about human stupidity? Justin Gregg's book, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, raises provocative questions about presumptions of human supremacy. In this episode of In Context, pattrice and Justin touch on subjects ranging from homophobia to climate change in a lively, sometimes humorous, and ultimately hopeful conversation.
21 Dec 2022
Talking Animals with Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is the author of the award winning novel Animals in that Country, which explores what happens when a pandemic takes interspecies communication to a whole new level. She joins pattrice to talk about how real cows, dingoes, and even mosquitos inspired the work, as well as the realities of the creative process.
11 Nov 2022
Teaching Kindness with Lisbet Chiriboga
Lisbet Chiriboga from Teach Kind (https://www.peta.org/teachkind/) joins pattrice jones to talk about the difference humane education makes for learning, ways parents and community members can encourage schools to incorporate humane education into their classroom, and why 5th grade is a pivotal year to engage children in compassionate conversations.
9 Oct 2022
Humane Education with Anna Boarini
In part 1 of a 3 part series on humane education, VINE's own Anna Boarini sits down to talk with pattrice jones about different ways parents and teachers can bring humane education to their communities, how engaging with children can inspire your own activism, and the duck olympics.
This one is not to be missed.
31 Aug 2022
Learning from Other Movements with Anita Krajnc
Anita Krajnc, a co-founder of the Animal Save Movement (www.thesavemovement.org), talks with pattrice jones about her activist history, the Plant Based Treaty (https://plantbasedtreaty.org/), and lessons animal advocates can take from ACT UP, radical environmentalists, and the value of bearing witness to animal suffering.
Please note, there were some issues with the recording, so the audio is at times a touch choppy.
24 Aug 2022
Mutual Aid with Michelle Carrera
Michelle Carrera, founder of Chilis on Wheels and Casa Vegana de la Communidad talks about the radical practice of mutual aid and the big question of what we can do from where we are with what we have.
10 Aug 2022
Focusing with Miko Brown
Miko Brown is the Director of Social Justice Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary. This deep and reflective conversation touches on Miko’s own personal activist trajectory, doing aliveness in community, and the focusing practice that grounds and orients Miko’s work.
The episode is filled with insights that can help us all act with more intention.
15 Jul 2022
Louder Than Words on Art as Activism
Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman are the founders of Louder Than Words, a cross-cultural, intergenerational art collective that targets sexual assault, domestic violence, LGBTQ equality, animal liberation, and mass incarceration.
30 Jun 2022
Living for the Future during Climate Crisis with Dany Celermajer
Professor Dany Celermajer is a director of the Sydney Environment Institute and the Multi Species Justice Project and the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. She joined pattrice for a deeply moving discussion about her experiences of the Australian bushfires of 2019, which devastated animal life and ecosystems in ways that are becoming all-too familiar as climate catastrophe changes the world around all of us.
You can read more from Dany here:
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/danielle-celermajer-learning-to-live-in-jimmy%E2%80%99s-world/12000232
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/07/who-killed-summertime-how-do-we-trace-the-complex-roots-of-responsibility
15 Jun 2022
Community Organizing with Brenda Sanders
Brenda Sanders is a founder of Afro-Vegan Society (https://www.afrovegansociety.org/) and Greener Kitchen (https://www.facebook.com/greenerkitchenco/). She is an organizer of Vegan Soul Fest (https://www.vegansoulfest.com/), a 3-day music and vegan food festival in Baltimore, coming up August 19-21, 2022.
1 Jun 2022
Queering Animal Liberation with Christopher Sebastian
pattrice jones talks with Christopher Sebastian about queering animal liberation, toxic masculinity, and so much more.
23 May 2022
Ecofeminist Animal Ethics with Lori Gruen
Lori Gruen is the author of Ethics and Animals and co-editor of Ecofeminism.
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