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