Kathryn Gillespie Book Talk and Q&A at Cafe Red

NARN is pleased to welcome author, Kathryn Gillespie, who will talk about her new book "The Sound of Feathers"

The event will be at Cafe Red, and Katie will talk about her book, invite Q&A from the audience, and then we hope you will all stick around to have lunch at the delicious (and all vegan Cafe Red).

Through vivid storytelling and deeply personal reflections, The Sound of Feathers: Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves " invites readers to pay attention to, and reflect on, the often fraught and overlooked relationships we have with other animals in our everyday lives. Stories from Gillespie's own life shed light on larger questions about the harms animals experience as a result of human use. She takes readers into spaces like the University of Washington's animal research facility and to her home with three beagles rescued from the lab; from the "poultry" auction yard to her own backyard to reflect on the commodification of farmed birds and so-called "humane" farming; and to the highways throughout the country where more than a million animals die every day as a result of automobile collisions. Topics like these offer windows into the larger structures (like capitalism and settler colonialism) that so thoroughly define how we relate to other species. Ultimately, the book asks how we might imagine and manifest gentler futures of shared flourishing.