Feminist Professor Claims Squirrels Are Victims Of Racist, Sexist Media Bias

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According to California State Polytechnic Assistant Professor Teresa Lloro-Bidart, “eastern fox squirrels are subjected to gendered, racialized, and speciesist thinking in the popular news media as a result of their feeding/eating practices, their unique and unfixed spatial arrangements in the greater Los Angeles region, and the wester, modernist human frame through which humans interpret these actions.”

what the fuck does this even mean?

Lloro-Bidard’s argument is contained in a report filed in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

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On her website, Lloro-Bidart writes:

Utilizing a theoretical lens influenced by Foucault (biopolitics; governmentality), critical pedagogy, and post-humanist scholarship, I investigate:

How the nonhuman is constructed in educative spaces, with particular attention given to the concrete and real-lived experiences of the nonhuman (e.g. the shark held in a large tank or pool)
How emotions and the development of empathic relationships with the environment or nature impact both learning and caring about the natural world
How “science” is constructed in educative spaces and the ways in which this “science” influences what is (and is not) taught

 

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