#SaveBenjy: sexuality, queer animals, and Ireland
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| Category | Journal Articles |
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| Abstract |
This paper explores the #SaveBenjy Crowdfunder campaign to save a Charolais bull in the Republic of Ireland who expressed sexual interest only in weanling bulls and not the heifers he was expected to impregnate. The prominence and popularity of #SaveBenjy is anything but coincidental. In May 2015, the referendum on gay marriage sought to legalize same-sex marriage. Consequently, #SaveBenjy provides a timely lens through which to view Irish attitudes towards sexuality, while also raising important questions around nonhuman subjectivity and personhood. #SaveBenjy blurs the boundaries between nature and culture and thus, demands a new paradigm within which the nonhuman animal can be appreciated as being inherently and simultaneously natural and cultural. |
| Publication Title | Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-122 |
| ISBN/ISSN | 2151-8645 |
| Language | English |
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