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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Of Worst Case Scenarios and Falling In Love Again.

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 Whey 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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