Do Species Meet? Antagonizing Interspecies Relationality Through Textual “Encounters”: Antagonising interspecies relationality through textual encounters

Artists, writers, and filmmakers have long told animal stories through novel mediums, capturing a part of the animals while never fully incorporating them. This, for better or for worse, allows multiple representations of animals. Much of academia, however, remains attached to rigid and somatophobic modes of research. In this vignette, we explore how it is more vital than ever to interrogate our own and our colleagues’ intentions and consequences in representing animals.