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ARUKAH ANIMAL INTERNATIONAL

Dr. Jane Goodall has said that “every species plays a role in the whole majestic mosaic of life.”

“…the animals which you slew and at your feasts, were also you.... Life is one in them all, and yours is but a portion of this same common life,” the old sage tells the King of Esarhaddon. Leo Tolstoy, “Esarhaddon, King of Assyria.”

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. …For the animal shall not be measured by man. …They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” Henry Beston, “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on The Great Beach of Cape Cod”

When the poet and nature writer Diane Ackerman was asked if she preferred whales to bats, she replied, “I prefer life.”

Art
Animals Advocacy

Arts Advocacy To End Animal Cruelty

Mission: Bringing an end to animal exploitation and suffering

through advocacy, awareness, and the arts

Why privilege one species (humans) over all other animal species, when we all breathe and share the same earth?

We are in a pivotal moment with respect to species outside of our own, with an extraordinary opportunity to create a profound kinship with those whom our fates are tied, with whom we share a spirit of consciousness. Over the last three years, more than 30 countries have formally recognized other animals including gorillas, lobsters, crows, and octopuses as sentient beings. Aren’t they all sentient?

Arukah Animal International envisions a world where we don’t differentiate between all who live, all who breathe, where we transcend all borders, to be the equal of all living beings, in our astonishing variety and diversity, that we are in fact all a part of a natural evolution of life forms. We are in fact not a thing apart.

Arukah Animal International sees more-than-human animals as creators of their own lives, as subjects, to thrive, to live, in all their richness and complexity, their individual and insistently singular and purposeful selves in all their marvel, flooding us with wonder.

Revealing Hidden Worlds: Art,
Animals, and Advocacy

Arukah Animal International

Envisions an ebullient radical empathy, a resistance to the old ways of hierarchical thinking where humans take center stage. Rather, we believe in the inviolable sanctity, the dignity, and the dazzling essentialness of more-than-human animals.

We recognize that their time on earth is meaningful, and they love their lives as we do ours.

“Revealing Hidden Worlds: Art, Animals, and Advocacy” featured a dazzling live-streamed art showcase and elation-bringing conversation hosted by the esteemed Annie Potts, with celebrated panelists Bubi the Bear, Julia Denos, Carol Gigliotti, Shannon Johnstone, Maria Martelli of Just Wondering, EvaMarie Lindahl, Laura Jean McKay, and Michelle Waters (Yvette Watt was unable to appear but will do so at a later date). Carl Franklin produced the event. This is about art possessing the singular capacity to captivate and inspire an exploration of our relationships with more-than-human animals and to resist the idea of speciesist and anthropocentric perspectives. This is activist art propelling us toward a multispecies universe and cultural and societal transformation.