ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS

Each week, Marla either composes and publishes a new essay or conducts a new interview. Each of the images below will link to the essay or interview. Marla publishes primarily on Medium.com or on our Blog, but many of the essays were originally published elsewhere. We are still in the process of moving all of the hundreds of essays and interviews here from our archive sites.

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ESSAYS

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Finding a Way Out: The Uphill Battle of Performing for Likes on Social Media

35 Vegan Recipes for Your Best Easter Brunch Ever

A Tale of Two World Records In the Same State

Finding a Way Out: The Uphill Battle of Performing for Likes on Social Media

Strangers Call Me Angry: How I Found Freedom When I Stopped Suppressing My Anger and You Can, Too

Yes, and: Conflicted Feelings Don't Mean You Made the Wrong Decision

Little Things Are Big: What the Legacy of Ida and Louise Cook Tells About Why Heroism Will Never Be Enough and Why We Can't Let That Stop Us

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

It's Groundhog Day. Is Climate Change Our Time Loop?

Hope Dies Last But Should It? On Wishful Thinking, Hanging On By a Thread and the Peace of Acceptance

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A Love Letter to the Earth: Brace Yourself for Some Hippy Dippy Sh*t

The Disgruntled Alphabet 2023 – Plus a Special Bonus – Bestofus!

Why You Can Find Humanity's Best and Worst at an Animal Shelter

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Get Squashed! 25 Sweet, Savory, Stuffed and Sensational Recipes Starring Our Favorite Cold Weather Fruit

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An Agnostic's Prayer

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Yes, We Are Heartbroken. Yes, We Have Hope.

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When You Natural Toolbox I No Longer Enough, You Do What You Have To Do.

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Hot Weather, Cool Kitchen: 21 Vegan Recipes for People and a Planet that Need to Chill Out.

Pulled Out By the Roots: How Large Nonprofits Exploit and Steal from Grassroots Activists

The Fireworks of Selfishness: When Your Right to Enjoy Something Inflicts Harm on Others, It Is No Longer a Personal Choice

Why Vegans Won't Just "Shut Up" About It.

13 Vegan Recipes Making the Most of Seasonal Ingredients

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What Does It Mean to Be a Mother and Who Decides?

Friendly Waters Ahead,  Fabulous Fungi and Other Takeaways from the 2023 National Restaurant Association Show

25 Irish (& Irish Inspired) Vegan St. Patrick's Day Recipes

20 Years Ago Today, as Bombs Were Raining Down on Baghdad,  We Joined 15,000 People to Invade Lake Shore Drive. This Is Our Story:

Our Spring Break: Tornados, Texas, Trump Ticked Off and Terror Tacos, a Travelogue

The Gaslighting of  Environmentalists In the Age of Ecocide

I Get Called Woke a Lot: The Unbearable Whiteness of Right-Winging

Facts vs Fallacies: "Vegans Are Responsible for More Animal Deaths than Meat Eaters

25 Vegan Hanukkah Recipes to Light Up Your Life

What Is Really Causing the Sixth Great Extinction?

Of Pecking and Poking: The Moments that Change Us for a Lifetime

35 Comforting Vegan Soups to Bowl You Over

Vegan Kitchen Magic

A Little Bit Naughty and a Little Bit Nice: 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Recipes from Eggnog to Yule Logs

Back-to-the-Basics Veganism: Six Ways to Make It Easier and Less Expensive

What We Mean When We Talk About Grief

Back-to-School (orAny Time) VeganLunch Roundup: 20 Fun and Easy Meals for Every Lunchbox

On Accepting the Unacceptable: Resignation to the Intolerable Allows It to Thrive

Ten Tips for Raising Vegan Children

A Tale of Two Illinois Towns and Two July 4 Parades

Built for Bittersweetness

Five Essentials for Your Next Vegan Picnic

My Ten Favorite Products at the National Restaurant Show

When the Worst Thing Happens After a Really Bad Thing Has Happened But, Oh, You’re Still Alive and Also Your Dog Loves You, or Happy Anniversary to Us, Ruby Mae!

Time Saving Tips for a Plant-Powered Kitchen

25 Vegan Mother's Day Brunch Recipes

LittleThings Are Big: On War, Despots and the Power of Being Brave,  Kind People

Twelve Vegan Ukrainian Recipes to Feed the Hungry Spirit.

Bad Vegan: A Misleading But Important Story About Coercive Control and Disinformation.

The Boy Who Cried Woo

A Love Letter to Ruby MaeOn Your First Birthday

Is This Vegan?  A Search for Purity In a Deeply Omnivorous World

Veganism, Wordles and Other Hurdles

On This Birthday That Ends In a Five...

Freedom of Speech Doesn't Mean Freedom From Consequences

Vegan Street – Our Year In Review (video)

I'll Take a Cup of Kindness

When the Teacher Is a Tyrant

Five Courses, Fifty Recipes: A Vegan Thanksgiving from Soup to Dessert fora perfect Holiday Feast

12 Cookie Categories + 5 Cookies Each = 60 Vegan Cookie Recipes to Level Up Your Holiday Cheer

Vegan Street Presents 2021's Happy News of the Year

I Really Thought Everyone Would Have Learned By Now

On Walking at Night and Thinking About Animals

27 (Easy) Strategies for Lifting Your Spirit

Take the Horror Out of Halloween for the Animals

30 Scarily Tasty Vegan Recipes for Your Halloween

A Halloween Tale (especially for vegan children of all ages)

Perfect By Design

The Case for Slow-Cooker Beans

The Power of Imagining to Create Change: One Vegan's Hopes for Her Future Child in 2021.

Undrowning Myself

Vaccines for Vegans in the Pandemic Means Doing Our Best in This Imperfect World

Five Habits of Highly Ineffective Vegans

A Snooty Vegan's Very Incomplete Guide to Fast, Fast Casual and Casual Restaurant Chains

What Edible Plant Type Are You? A Quiz to Help You Better Understand Yourself Through the Seasons

The Power of Memes - by John Beske

Ten Arguments Against Veganism That Are Really Grasping at Straws

Soy-chosis! The Strange But True Origin of How a Bean Became Demonized by a Nation (and Beyond)

When Vegan Besties Break Up

What We Don't Say When We Say We're Vegan

Vegans for BDS

20 Fabulous Vegan Recipes from Burgers to Banana Splits for the Grill!

Of Motherhood and Otherhood. It's time to expand who we think of when we think of who is considered a mother.

"Stay in my own lane!" Dude, this is my own f**king superhighway, and you don't get to patrol it!

Ten Fabulous Vegan Picnics
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On Learning Curves and Hitting Your Stride As a Vegan

50 Banging Vegan Breakfasts

You're So Fake: A Very Abridged Look at the Long History of Plant-Based Dairy, Meat and Eggs

If Journalism is the First Rough Draft of History, What Are Vegans Building for the Animals Today?

Vegans of the Zodiac

Spring  Into Veganism. Ten Reasons Why Now Is a Great Time To Go Vegan

It's Almost As If You Can't Be An Asshole Without Being Cancelled Anymore

Eight Patron Saints for Vegans

1970s Sitcom Characters as Vegan Archetypes of Today

Our Changing Trollscape: Or My New Year's Goals for 2021

I Did Nazi That Coming – Why Animal Activists Should Not Invoke the Holocaust (And It's Not Why You Think)

25 Vegan Eats for the Big Game (or Any Day)

Four points of opportunity the pandemic created for the animals

Welcome to Fantasy Chicken Island

When Unity Is Untenable

Veganism In the Time of Coronavirus

Vegans Decide: Am I an apologist or an extremist?

A Long But Still Incomplete List of Disclaimers to Accompany My Food Photos and Links.

Here Are Literally 50 More Vegan Side Dishes You Can Eat Instead of Turkey This Thanksgiving

20 Overnight Vegan Desserts for Thanksgiving

Tuxi, or What the Animal Rescue Community Can Teach Vegan Advocates​

We Quarantined for Thanksgiving. You Can, Too.

Abracadabra: It's Vegan, Witches

Here Are Literally 50 More Vegan Main Dishes You Can Eat Instead of Turkey This Thanksgiving

Six Reasons Why Autumn Is the Perfect Time to Go Vegan

Ten Vegan Archetypes of Schitt's Creek

In Honor of World Egg Day

Hi. The Planet Is On Fire. Are Vegans Still Too Pushy?

Four Back-To-School Tips For Lifetime Learners.

Dear Miley Cyrus, There Is No Such Thing As A Brain Type.

A Long, Incomplete And Still Evolving List of Disclaimers To Accompany My Food Photos and Links.

When Fallacies and Fantasies Replace Reality.

The Speech Trump Wanted To Give Pardoning Susan B Anthony.

The Life Lessons Of One Tiny But Mighty Dog.

If We're Going To Be Swimming Upstream In Debunking Coronavirus Nonsense, Let's Be One Another's Life Vests.

Yes, Your Companion Animals Are Getting Sick Of You In Quarantine.

On Accountability, Reckoning With Indifference And Using Shame As A Tactic

12 Feelings Only Vegans Understand.

7 Concerns I Had About Veganism That Weren't Justified.

Every Kind of Float You Missed This Year at Pride, Represented by Doggos

A Meditation Script for Vegans Who Are Really Close to Losing It

How to Get Your Vegan Kitchen and Home Ready for Emergencies

9 Ways Non_Black Vegans Can Better Support Black People

35 Warm Weather Vegan Recipes that Will Keep Your Belly Happy and Your Home Cool.

How Vegans Got Folded Into the Right-Wing Response to the Coronovirus

Been There, Do That: The Legume Lore,  Why They Should Be In Your Kitchen and How to Cook Them.

What Kind of Quarantining Vegan Are You?

How to Eat Like a Vegan Without Breaking the Bank

A Primer for Everyone Who Has Been Swiping Our Tofu

In Case You Needed to Hear It.

50 Pantry-Friendly Vegan Recipes That Will Make Your Quarantine Suck a Little Less.

How Thinking Like a Vegan Can Get You Through This Quarantine

So You're Doing a Quarantine, Too. Let Me Help You

Fifteen Things You Can Do As an Animal Rights Activist Instead of Jumping Onstage and Screaming Incoherently This Election Year

35 Fabulous Spreads forToast

V Is for Valentine's Day: 50 Delicious Recipes for Celebrating with Heart

50 Vegan Casseroles to Warm You Belly and Give You Reasons to Live

A Customizable Script for the Modern Attention Seeker Who Just Quit Being Vegan

Nine Good Communication Practices for Vegans on Social Media. making Progress in 2020

Literally 50 Fabulous Cookies, Bars and Candies You Can Make Without Animal Products This Holiday

How To Raise Thoughtful and Well-Rounded Parents

Before You Do a Vegan Resolution in January: Eight Ways to Set Yourself for Success

When Gratitude Isn't All Rainbows and Unicorns

Talking Turkey Without Pulling Punches

Literally 50 Desserts You Can Make Without Animal Products This Thanksgiving

Literally 50 Side Dishes You Can Make Without Animal Products This Thanksgiving

Literally 50 Main Dishes You Can Make Without Animal Products This Thanksgiving

Of Mugs, Cancer and Transforming Our Bruises

10 Ways That Vegans Are Mysterious and Magical AF

​If you'd like to access earlier essays from Marla, visit her Medium page or her earlier Vegan Feminist Agitator blog.

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INTERVIEWS

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If you'd like to access earlier interviews, visit Marla's Vegan Feminist Agitator blog.

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