Normalized to the point of invisibility, animals and women share common ground in their mutal state of "otherness" against the backdrop of predominantly and traditionally phallocentric societies. Striving to avoid the didactic or lecturing position of "all knowing", I seek instead to open the conversation and to begin to deconstruct the highly constructed role of the feminine and feral as objects of both fear and desire.
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Normalized to the point of invisibility, animals and women share common ground in their mutal state of "otherness" against the backdrop of predominantly and traditionally phallocentric societies. Striving to avoid the didactic or lecturing position of "all knowing", I seek instead to open the conversation and to begin to deconstruct the highly constructed role of the feminine and feral as objects of both fear and desire.