by Joanna Slodownik | Aug 16, 2024 | Activism, Blog, Books, Children's Books
Walking the Talk: Aligning Our Values with Our Actions Let’s face it: we’re all a bit guilty of saying one thing and doing another. We talk about the importance of telling the truth, living by our values, and making the world a better place for our kids. But when it...
by Joanna Slodownik | Aug 14, 2024 | Animals, Blog, Children's Books
Flamingos are more than just pink beauties, who spend their time looking cool, standing on one leg. These iconic creatures have some truly fascinating characteristics and play important roles in their ecosystems. Here are over 10 things you might not know about these...
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 | Oct 9, 2022 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front, vegan
It is vitally important that we set clear, specific and achievable goals, set a time horizon for their implementation, and then unite around these goals and focus our actions on putting them into practice. Change is happening, but not fast enough. We are not united,...
