S3, Ep15: Redistributing Privilege in Veganism with Mikaela Loach
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your order at vivolife.com.
This week, Momo and Evy have an in-depth discussion about redistributing privilege in the vegan community with the wonderful Mikaela Loach. Mikaela is a climate justice and anti-racism activist, a writer, medical student and host of The Yikes Podcast. In this episode, Mikaela shares her journey to veganism, her early days of animal rights activism and why the word ‘vegan’ is no longer front and centre in her activism. Mikaela also shares her ideas on keeping ego out of activism and how the movement will thrive when we listen to marginalised people and focus on the community as a whole rather than glorifying individuals within the vegan community.
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Also in this episode…
- Mikaela talks about going vegan overnight at the age of 16 after having her eyes opened to the logical fallacies inherent in eating animals.
- She shares her admiration for the young activists finding their voice in our movement and notes the importance of social media as a tool for organising and advocating for causes.
- We talk about the intersection of vegan and anti-racism work and Mikaela reminds us that “being aware of how other beings are oppressed will only ever strengthen our movements, it can’t weaken them”.
- Mikaela explains the importance of keeping our ego in check, especially when we’re advocating for change on behalf of non-human animals.
- “If we want to disrupt the system it’s going to be uncomfortable”. Mikaela emphasises the need to accept discomfort as part of the process in creating systemic change.
- How do we reach and change the minds of those who see the world so differently to us?
- Mikaela gives her perspective on ‘cancelling’ people and why she believes we need to lower the bar in terms of bringing people into movements.
- Mikaela talks about the upcoming season of The Yikes Podcast and explains why she likes podcasting as a medium.
Links:
Follow Mikaela on Instagram and Twitter.
The Yikes Podcast on Spotify and Apple.
Mikaela’s writing on Eco-Age.
50 Years of Imagining Radical Feminist Futures; A Conversation with Angela Davis and Adrienne Maree Brown.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of The Chickpeeps is sponsored by the lovely people at Forager Project. |
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| 0:21.2 | Honestly, they make the tastiest and most indulgent plant-based yogurts. I would get on a plane |
| 0:25.7 | for them if not for the global lockdown restrictions. So Robbie has been getting all the |
| 0:30.3 | Farger products to sample this season, and he's really taunting me with them. It makes group |
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| 0:39.2 | podcast listeners, you're in luck, you can avail of their delicious products, and Forager is offering a |
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| 0:51.5 | And while you're there, check out hundreds of delicious and easy to make |
| 0:55.0 | dairy-free recipes. So you can avail of your free yogurt and you'll be treating yourself and |
| 1:00.0 | supporting the podcast. That's foragerproject.com forward slash cultivate health. Forager project |
| 1:05.4 | is always organic and always plant-based. Let good food be. Hello, Chick-Peeps. Welcome to Season 3, episode 15 of The Chick-Peeps. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm your host, Ivana Lynch, and The Chick-Peeps is your friendly weekly vegan podcast. |
| 1:18.4 | And in today's episode, we're discussing redistributing privilege in the vegan movement |
| 1:22.7 | with the brilliant Michaela Loach. |
| 1:25.2 | A way I think of how we should be doing our work is always trying to like, |
| 1:29.0 | might sound a bit weird and spiritual, |
| 1:30.5 | but like we're trying to anchor your soul |
| 1:32.2 | into the world that you want to create |
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