by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 24, 2023 | pl
Lektura “Wielkiej ciszy” Teda Chianga odebrała mi oddech. Natknęłam się na nią w okolicach Świąt Bożego Narodzenia, przy okazji poszukiwań flash fiction (nigdy wcześniej nie słyszałam o takiej formie literackiej i chciałam ją wypróbować jako ćwiczenie w...
by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog
We treat animals as legal objects. We should treat them as legal subjects instead. You may believe that the law protects animals from harm in the United States, but that belief is false. There are few meaningful legal protections for most animals, and little if any...
by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 16, 2023 | Animals, Blog, Children's Books
I felt honored and touched and full of wonder as I watched a family of 10+ majestic elephants walk gracefully across a dry riverbed in a Namibian desert. These creatures are rare and precious and absolutely amazing. These were definitely not THINGS or OBJECTS walking,...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 21, 2023 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front
There are many reasons to feel despair, hopelessness, and powerlessness in today’s world. Wars, injustices, inequalities, diseases, sustainability issues, climate change, racism, speciecism, species extinction, and countless others. (I talk about some of them in my...
by Joanna Slodownik | Sep 15, 2023 | Animals, Books, Children's Books, Front
Finally! I just have to share this with you. (Pigs Are Awesome!) I finally published the updated, full color edition of a book that is very dear to my heart. It is the first book I wrote in the non-fiction for kids’ series about farm animals, and it was so much fun,...