Emi Leese  Ⓥ

Emi Leese Ⓥ

@emilialeese.bsky.social

Author of book and host of podcast "Think Like a Vegan". Re-wilder with the award-winning http://birchfieldhighlands.org. Also a public speaker, magazine editor and corp finance lawyer. Visit emilialeese.com and https://emilialeese.substack.com she/her

380 Followers 258 Following 147 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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I’m so grateful to receive messages like this. It’s satisfying and it’s moving too. It’s a recognition of one’s work and, more importantly, of the book’s central message

Think Like a Vegan - published by Wilton Square Books - available worldwide, wherever you buy books and on audiobook

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Pigeons are "pests." Elephants are "nuisances." Deer are "overpopulated." What if the problem isn't them, but the story we tell about them? Ep 32 of Think Like a Vegan is live w Claudia Hirtenfelder, host of The Animal Turn and a geographer who maps the relationships between humans and other animals

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3 weeks ago

I really enjoyed this walk and talk with @jordiwasp.bsky.social
Check it out! And thanks for inviting me Jordi!!

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3 weeks ago
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When She Understood What Dairy Truly Is, it Hit Her Like a Tonne of Bricks YouTube video by Vegan FTA

Here is the latest's episode of my YouTube series "Walking with Vegans to Get Tea," this one with @emilialeese.bsky.social , author of the book "Think Like a Vegan"
youtu.be/nAgpyTWjNfw?... #vegan #veganism #ethicalvegan

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The Political Left and the Overlooked Power of Veganism: Toward a Marxist-Animal Liberationist Framework for Ecological Revolution This paper critically examines the marginalisation of veganism within leftist or progressive political discourse, particularly through the lens of Marxist theory, in the context of the Anthropocene. W...

My piece, “The Political Left and the Overlooked Power of Veganism: Toward a Marxist-Animal Liberationist Framework for Ecological Revolution” has just been published in the Animal Studies Journal. Read it here www.uowoajournals.org/asj/article/...

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The political left and the overlooked power of veganism - Emilia Leese [IARC2025] YouTube video by International Animal Rights Conference

Happy to see this. The video for my talk on the Left & Veganism I delivered at the International Animal Rights Conference in Luxembourg in Sept 2025 is now available on IARC’s YouTube channel. Perfect summary companion to my paper published by the Animal Studies Journal

youtu.be/dT4tKCgiKJ8

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Emilia A Leese (@emileese) New post! On the UK gov’t biodiversity loss report

New post! On the UK gov’t biodiversity loss report

substack.com/@emileese/no...

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That first time you told a child, “Because I said so.” ✋ Where does that instinct for control really come from?
Episode 31 of Think Like a Vegan podcast is live. Activist and scholar Amanda Williams dismantles the idea of adult supremacy, the unseen hierarchy shaping our first lessons in power

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Ever wonder what animal activism really looks like from the inside? 🍁
My new episode is live! 🎙️ Ep 30 of Think like a vegan features researcher Dr. Ceallaigh MacCath-Moran spending time deep in vegan and animal rights communities in Canada.
Streaming on all podcast platforms & on my YouTube channel

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3 months ago
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Reminder: pick up a copy of Think Like a Vegan for yourself, a new or longtime vegan, a vegan-curious person or even an anti-vegan! The book is now in paperback, available worldwide wherever you buy books, also in ebook and audiobook, and has a new publisher, @wiltonsquare.bsky.social 🎁

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Think Like A Vegan Think Like a Vegan invites you to set aside preconceived notions about veganism, and to enter into an invigorating conversation about daily ethical decisions The book and companion podcast and videos...

YouTube channel youtube.com/@thinklikeav...

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Ep. 29: The ultimate peace movement: The evolution of veganism as a social movement Podcast Episode · Think Like a Vegan · 01/12/2025 · 46m

Streaming wherever you get podcasts and on my YouTube channel

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3 months ago
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Just dropped Ep 29 of Think Like a Vegan podcast which will recalibrate your understanding of veganism. I talk with the brilliant Roger Yates—sociologist & animal rights firebrand. He unpacked veganism’s radical history as a philosophy of TOTAL liberation. It’s not what you’ve been sold. It’s bigger

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3 months ago

It’s an extraordinary and compelling film. I still think about it years after I first saw it.

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4 months ago
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Important update! Think Like a Vegan is now published by Wilton Square Books! After a wobble, fate came to the rescue and we’ve got a new publisher. Available in print, ebook and audiobook wherever you buy books and from your local library

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5 months ago
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How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

Must-read companion piece by Vasile Stanescu in @currentaffairs.bsky.social

www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

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Animals Like Us: Exploring Shared Struggles Across Species YouTube video by Think Like A Vegan

What if animal rights and human dignity are one fight? My talk for Grow Civic in north of Cyprus explores the systemic links between human & animal exploitation in agriculture and the path to shared liberation.

Watch on my YouTube channel

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5 months ago

Thank you

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Ep. 27: Why vegans should care about genocide/ecocide in Gaza Podcast Episode · Think Like a Vegan · 10/10/2025 · 38m

A very moving talk by @rimona-afana.bsky.social about the #genocide , #ecocide & long-term consequences in Gaza for people, other animals & the environment. Essential listening for people who care. Host: @emilialeese.bsky.social

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Ep. 27: Why vegans should care about genocide/ecocide in Gaza Podcast Episode · Think Like a Vegan · 10/10/2025 · 38m

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Ep. 27: Why vegans should care about genocide/ecocide in Gaza

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The victims of Israel's war on Gaza we aren't talking about 🕊️. Ep 27 of Think Like a Vegan podcast is live. Researcher Rimona Afana exposes the hidden cost: the deliberate destruction of the natural world and nonhuman animals. Streaming now on all platforms @rimona-afana.bsky.social

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Alan Watson Featherstone has spent a lifetime listening to the 🌏. He reframes rewilding not as a technical process but as a restoration of relationship. We discuss why healing land is a radical act of hope and how a single tree contains a future forest. Remember w us our place in the living world

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Capitalism didn't just commodify animals - it turned suffering into an industry. Meet John Sanbonmatsu, and his incendiary new work The Omnivore's Deception
So begins the new season of my Think Like a Vegan podcast
Streaming on all platforms & YouTube

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10 months ago

Not limited to Brits. Whenever I speak with people who profess to be on the political left, they become reactionaries as soon as animals are mentioned

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10 months ago
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Facts

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10 months ago
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This never gets old. My book for sale at @strandbookstore.bsky.social in NYC and in some great company! Go get your copy and support indi bookstores. Or request Think Like a Vegan from your local library

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10 months ago

Trans women are women,
trans men are men,
and that’s that.

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10 months ago

It’s fantastic to be included in, and work with the outstanding editors of, @currentaffairs.bsky.social

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10 months ago

My piece in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. I’m super proud of this one and honoured to have it in such a first rate publication

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