S8E1: Trans-Speciesism and the MARS Test with Natalie Khazaal, Tobias Linné, and Ellen Gorsevski

The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal join Claudia on the show to discuss how race and species intersect each other in animated film and the development of their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test to evaluate the ways in which they do. 

Date Recorded: 31 March 2025 

Featured: 

• Media, Racism, Speciesism: Issues and Solutions for Creaturely Racism in the Anthropocene edited by Natalie Khazaal, Ellen Gorsevski and Tobias Linné
• Monsters, Heroes, and Others: Unpacking Power in Media and Politics through Race or Speciesa symposium at Georgia Tech 
• Many meats and many milks? by Tobias Linné
• Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Critical Animal and Media Studies edited by Núria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman
• Connecting racial and species justice: Towards an Afrocentric animal advocacy by Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
• Afro-Dog by Bénédicte Boisseron
• The dreaded comparison: human and animal slavery by Marjorie Spiegel

A.P.P.L.E
Animals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.

Pollination Project
The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need.

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & Commun

iROAR Network
iROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals.

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