I came out of the womb a radical feminist, but it wasn't until my late twenties that I thought to consider the injustices inflicted upon non-human animals. After reading The Food Revolution by John Robbins, I immediately went vegetarian. About a year later during a volunteer stay at Farm Sanctuary, I went fully vegan.

In 2026 I launched a vegan humor publication called Laughs Not Slaughs. “Slaughs” isn't a real word but it rhymes with laughs – and laughter beats slaughter. I also write FECK, yes!, a Substack exploring pleasure, consent, and freedom – for every body.

I am often full of beans.

I became vegan in 2011 after watching "Best Speech Ever" by Gary Yourofsky! Right before I went vegan I had my blood work done and my total cholesterol was high, 168. I was also getting sick like allergies twice a year. It was causing drainage accompanied with weazing and infections which was why I got my blood work done.

6 years after going vegan I had to know my bloodwork. It was down to 125! I wasn't sick that entire time. And I had only removed animals and their secretions. I did nothing else.

For that first 6 years I only knew what not to eat but really didn't know how to eat until 2017. I started studying nutrition a little and learned about a whole-food, plant based diet and how it's the healthiest.

When I realized no one needed to eat animals at all (unless they're in extreme desperate circumstances of course) I also realized it was likely hurting everyone; the slaughterhouse worker, the consumer, the health care system, zoonotic disease, on and on….
I became very intrigued by nutrition most notably. If the healthiest way to be is vegan then why kill animals at all?
So, now I have devoted my entire life to learning what I can about nutrition, advocating, and capturing other people's vegan stories for vegan linked. ❤