Lierre Keith
Lierre Keith | |
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| File:Lierre Keith.png Keith (May 2011) | |
| Born | 1964 (age 61–62)[1] |
| Education | Brookline High School |
| Organizations | |
| Notable work | The Vegetarian Myth |
| Movement | Radical feminism, trans-exclusionary radical feminism |
| Website | www |
Lierre Keith (/liˈɛər/; born 1964) is an American writer, radical feminist, anti-transgender activist, and food activist.
Biography
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She began her public involvement in the feminist movement as the founding editor of Vanessa and Iris: A Journal for Young Feminists (1983–1985).[2][3] During that period, she worked with the Women Against Violence Against Women group in Cambridge, participating in educational events and protest campaigns.[3] In 1984, she was a founding member of Minor Disturbance, a feminist-perspective protest group against militarism.[3] In 1986, she was a founding member of Feminists Against Pornography in Northampton, Massachusetts.[3] She is among the founding editors of Rain and Thunder, a radical feminist journal in Northampton, Massachusetts.[3]
As a radical feminist Keith has made numerous appearances, interviews, and speeches around the U.S. and Canada.[4]
Keith was an early public advocate of the U.S. local food movement. In a 2006 Boston Globe report, she said, "I like knowing that I'm supporting the local economy, and not corporate America."[5]
Her views have been criticized by some vegetarians, in what one journalist has called a "Vegan War".[6] During a presentation of her book The Vegetarian Myth at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, protesters hit Keith with chili pepper-laced pies. Keith responded by denouncing the act as "coward" and asking her assailants to direct their "herbivorous rage" at the powerful.[7]
The Vegetarian Myth
[edit | edit source]Keith's 2009 book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a controversial examination of the ecological effects of agriculture and vegetarianism. In The Vegetarian Myth, she offers evidence of agriculture destroying entire eco-systems, such as the North American prairie. She also argues in favour of animal agriculture over plant agriculture, citing that the latter destroys topsoil,[6] while animal farming rebuilds it.
Deep Green Resistance
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Keith is associated with the Deep Green Resistance movement, and together with Aric McBay and Derrick Jensen, she co-wrote Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, published in May 2011.[8] The book describes itself as a "manual on how to build a resistance movement that will bring down industrial civilization and save the planet", and "evaluates strategic options for resistance, from non-violence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful".[8]
After the publication of this book, the authors co-founded an organization by the same name. McBay left the organization in early 2012, saying he disagreed with Jensen and Keith's cancellation of a transgender-inclusive policy.[9] Deep Green Resistance has disputed this account, saying that the women's safe space policy was one issue among many, and that the decision to restrict women's spaces was made by the women of DGR, and not by Jensen or Keith.[10]
Women's Liberation Front
[edit | edit source]Keith is a founder of the Women's Liberation Front, and, as of 2021[update], serves as its chair.[11] Women's Liberation Front is an American legal advocacy organization that primarily litigates on transgender topics, and also supports abortion rights, and favors action to combat violence against women and the introduction of the Nordic model approach to prostitution.[12] Women's Liberation Front has been accused of being a hate group by the University of Wisconsin Law School QLaw student organization[13][14] and the Gender Justice League.[15]
Works
[edit | edit source]- Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company). 2021.
- Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet (edited by L.K. and Derrick Jensen), PM Press, 2012, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (written by L.K., Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay), Seven Stories Press, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Vegetarian Myth, PM Press, 2009, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Skyler Gabriel, Fighting Words Pr, 1995, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Conditions of War, Fighting Words Pr, 1993, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Notes
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- ^ Periodicals Collection, 1784- (ongoing), Sophia Smith Collection, Five College Archives & Manuscript Collections, Asteria.
- ^ a b c d e Lierre Keith CV Archived 2010-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, Lierre Keith official website [better source needed]
- ^ Lierre Keith appearance Archived 2012-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, contains many external links to radio and press interviews [better source needed]
- ^ "Movement toward more sustainable food systems is growing", By Emily Shartin, Boston Globe Staff, July 26, 2006
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- ^ "Pies-in-face attack roils anarchist-vegan world", Demian Bulwa, San Francisco Chronicle Staff, March 17, 2010
- ^ a b Aric McBay, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith. Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet Archived 2010-08-18 at the Wayback Machine. Seven Stories Press, May 2011. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. Last accessed May 29, 2011.
- ^ Aric McBay, "DGR and Transphobia", May 14, 2013.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Interview with Lierre Keith Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, by Aric McBay, InTheWake, ca. 2005. (original archive copy)
- Interview with Lierre Keith by Ian McKenzie, on Why Agriculture is Destroying the Planet
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