"Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters" by Aph Ko and Syl Ko

Mandy Bunten-Walberg is a Ph.D. student in Queen’s University’s School of Environmental Studies, where she is developing her dissertation research, entitled Chiropteran Ethics and the Queer, Contagious Intimacies of COVID-19. She is a graduate of York University’s Master of Environmental Studies program, where she explored how humans might learn from other animals as teachers, leaders, and visionaries of their own liberation. She is hopelessly devoted to her cat companion, Murphy, and she seeks to support all human and more-than-human persons through veganism, theory, and activism that pursues total liberation (though she admittedly has a long way to go and a lot to learn).