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Wanna hear more? This video from our 2025 After-Party just dropped today on Patreon… because we’re super excited to announce the annual APEX After-Party is coming back December 2026 🎉 And y’all already know: this won’t be your standard end-of-year ashy fundraiser: We celebrate our year of advocacy with critical panel discussions that highlight formidable voices from our community. We go on an intimate, virtual animal rescue/sanctuary tour. We play a few fun and spicy games. We have incredible prizes/giveaways just for showing up! And of course, we get a lil plant-based and petty 💅🏾 In this video, our panel discussed confronting colonial constructs in animal advocacy. Special guests zaynab shahar @djinnofthedamned and Stewart Mitchell @vigilante_vegan joined APEX’s own Yvette Baker @collectiveabolition , Christopher Sebastian @the_christopher_sebastian , Yasmin Badshamiah @yasmin_badshamiah and Sunny Satva @sunny4earth as host. If you missed the last few years...you betta ask somebody. Because this party pops off. 🔥 #AnimalAdvocacy #CollectiveLiberation #BIPOCVegans #ColonialConstructs #whiteveganism

The whole word @yasmin_badshamiah 🔥🎤 Full recording, “How We Challenge White Supremacy and Patriarchy Through a Vegan Lens” is available via the APEX Advocacy Patreon (link in bio). Team APEX: @yasmin_badshamiah @sunny4earth @collectiveabolition @the_christopher_sebastian #StudyAsResistance #CollectiveLiberation #TotalLiberation #WhiteSupremacy #SmashThePatriarchy

Discussing Ancestral Foodways during “How We Challenge White Supremacy and Patriarchy Through a Vegan Lens” on the APEX Advocacy Patreon (link in our bio) @the_christopher_sebastian @sunny4earth 🎤🔥🎤🔥 #PlantBasedEating #CollectiveLiberation #AncestralFoodways #SoulFood #AnimalLiberation

“How We Challenge White Supremacy and Patriarchy Through a Vegan Lens” (Inside the Work Ep. 5) from our Patreon — and you know where to find that link 😉 #collectiveliberation #animalliberation #bipocvegans #totalliberation #animalrights

‘A Scream of Bloody Murder: On Pigs, Solidarity, and Black Liberation’ is available for viewing on the @apexadvocacy Patreon page linked in our bio. Roundtable: @collectiveabolition @whatisyouroffering @erin_wing720 @the_christopher_sebastian #BlackLiberation #AnimalLiberation #CollectiveLiberation #TotalLiberation #BlackVegans

On Pigs, Solidarity, and Black Liberation. New episode is LIVE on the APEX Advocacy Patreon! 🧡 (link in bio) Roundtable: @the_christopher_sebastian @collectiveabolition @erin_wing720 @whatisyouroffering #TotalLiberation #AnimalLiberation #BlackLiberation

A behind-the-scenes chat with team APEX on “How We Challenge White Supremacy and Patriarchy Through a Vegan Lens”. This is the ‘Inside the Work’ episode our Patreon supporters voted for and here’s your heads up that it lands today! ✨ Team APEX deepened the convo into legacies of resistance, weaponized veganism, innocence as a political trap, and why friction can be generative. The link is in our bio - and this is episode no. 5 of the series! So make sure you’re subscribed and we’ll see you there! Speakers: @the_christopher_sebastian @yasmin_badshamiah @sunny4earth @collectiveabolition #whitesupremacy #patriarchy #veganism #CollectiveLiberation #Intersectionality

Empire has always feared a radical class and species solidarity 🎤 @collectiveabolition Full episode: APEX Advocacy Patreon. Read the Room, Ep 4: “On Rats and Race: Dispossession, Disenfranchisement, and Despair” Roundtable: @dreadyvet @anarch0landsteward @the_christopher_sebastian @collectiveabolition #CollectiveLiberation #MultiSpeciesJustice #BlackLiberation #TotalLiberation #ratsofig

From ‘On Rats and Race: Dispossession, Disenfranchisement, and Despair’- ep.4 of ‘Read the Room’ available on APEX Advocacy Patreon. This clip is from the discussion of Tara Betts’ poem, ‘For Those Who Need a True Story’ Roundtable: @dreadyvet @anarch0landsteward @collectiveabolition @the_christopher_sebastian #CollectiveLiberation #TotalLiberation #Ratstagram #AnimalLiberation #ClassSolidarity

VOTE UNTILL July 23, 11:59 pm PT! Thank you, everyone!!! 😭🎉🧡 Our poll is now LIVE on Patreon! Cast your vote! You’re in control of our next episode! ✨ Sit in on the hard and messy thoughts, disagreements included. Find accessible teachings that connect animal justice to the struggles you already know in your bones. Connect with readings and discussions from thinkers who refuse single-issue politics. And hear from imperative voices you won’t find in the mainstream feed. We’ll see you there! 🫶🏿🫶🏾🫶🏽 ~ Team APEX #CollectiveLiberation #Liberation #PoliticalEducation #CriticalAnalysis #TotalLiberation

Releasing later today on Patreon is our interview with U.S. food system expert @vegan_lobbyist founder of what was the first U.S. vegan-backed federal lobbying group, Agriculture Fairness Alliance (now sunsetted). Find out why she stopped shining the Vegan Batgirl light across Los Angeles, why she no longer believes in lobbying at the federal level to achieve systemic change, and why the food system is one of most racist institutions in the United States. Interviewed by: @collectiveabolition #VeganBatGirl #FoodSystemChangeNow #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRights #VeganNonProfit

We’re just getting started!🔥 Welcome in. APEX 2.0 is finally here. And it’s an honor to have you with us 🧡 You can find all the links you need in our Linktree. And as Sebastian said, in order to increase our independence, our Patreon is the place to support our work. Don’t miss the critical conversations already happening over there 😉 Thank you for support. We can’t do this without you ✊🏿 #AnimalAdvocacy #CollectiveLiberation #CrossMovementSolidarity #BIPOCVegans #TotalLiberation P.S.: Don’t get tripped up by ‘vegan’ vs. ‘plant-based’. We recognized the many varied and powerful reasons folks may be plant-based or choose to omit animal “products” from their lifestyle, but ‘veganism’ is an anti-oppression stance that centers the liberation struggle of our beyond-human kin.

It’s true, it’s free and we’ll even feed you 🌱 (link in bio, Los Angeles) Register via Eventbrite then come join @apexadvocacy IN-PERSON on Sat, Oct 24th from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PT at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice @harriettubmancenter In collaboration with @pulitzercenter we bring you, ‘Synthetic Media and the Crisis of Truth’, an interactive teach-in on how AI is changing our relationship to knowledge and our sense of what’s real, with time for conversation and community building. ***Masks will be provided and required for the indoor spaces. 😷 There will also be shaded, seated segments of the workshop outdoors.*** Register early because space is limited!!! (for real) Want more info before you decide to register? Go to: apexadvocacy.org/events #CollectiveResilience #AgeofAI #CollectiveLiberation #SyntheticMedia #CommunityBuilding

Leveling with anti-vegan criticisms before landing the plane - @collectiveabolition 🔥 Our 4th installment of ‘Anti-Veganism from the Left’: “Veganism is Ableist”. Our guests: @notesfromever and @djinnofthedamned 🧡🧡 (Next: “Veganism is Anti-Indigenous” featuring a panel of Indigenous vegans) #BIPOCVegans #leftistsolidarity #AnimalLiberation #CollectiveLiberation #disabilityinclusion

Every animal rights organization knows the numbers. Most of them have said nothing. We say that every life matters but still decide that some genocides must remain unnamed. Roundtable: @dreadyvet @the_christopher_sebastian @anarch0landsteward @collectiveabolition #CollectiveLiberation #AnimalLiberation #TotalLiberation #PalestinianLiberation #BlackVegans

Disability Pride Month may be coming to a close, but our practice is still deepening. Animal Justice cannot move toward collective liberation while actively reproducing eugenic logics rooted in ableism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. Creating this carousel has meant returning to work we know and encountering work that is new to us with active reverence. Our responsibility deepens as we remain in relationship with this work. Multiple members of the APEX team are disabled. We are a Black, Brown, and queer team, and we are accountable to our disabled Black, Indigenous and brown, queer communities. Accountability includes listening to disabled organizers, materially supporting B.I.P.O.C. disabled folk, and redistributing resources. These practices are essential to keeping our communities alive. no one is disposable. Accessibility: Alt text is available on each slide and there is a full image transcript in the pinned comments. #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityPride #CollectiveLiberation #AnimalLiberation #DisabilityAwareness

Registration is open! You know where to find the link 😉 Registration is free, though contributions are encouraged and deeply appreciated. Your contribution of any amount supports us at APEX Advocacy, a Black-led nonprofit committed to collective liberation. The teach-in will be recorded, and the recording will be shared with all registered participants afterward. Nov 13, 9:00 am Pacfic, 12:00 pm Eastern via Zoom, in collaboration with @pulitzercenter , we bring you ‘Synthetic Media and the Crisis of Truth,’ a virtual teach-in on how AI is changing our relationship to knowledge and our sense of what’s real. This session will be 1.5 hours and will include time for selected participant questions. Access to the articles that we’ll be discussing can be found via the event registration link or through our website at apexadvocacy.org/events Automated live captions will be available through Zoom. For accessibility accommodations or questions about participating, please contact yasmin@apexadvocacy.org #CollectiveResilience #CollectiveLiberation #SyntheticMedia #AIResistance #Disinformation

Deep gratitude to @veganhouserules for making space for this conversation. Our executive director @collectiveabolition sat down to talk about the work we do at APEX and to say plainly what too many movements refuse: plant-based living is not a colonial import. For Afro-Indigenous communities, plant-centered eating can be ancestral practice, political memory, and a refusal to let extractive food systems write our futures. Veganism and Indigeneity were never at odds. This interview holds the holistic, the political, and the decolonial together, because you can’t separate what we eat from who profits, who’s displaced, who’s exploited, whose bodies are commodified, and who’s fed. Read the full conversation and purchase issue 002 of Industry Plant (released 7/7/26) at https://linktr.ee/veganhouserules #Decolonize #AfroIndigenous #plantbased #foodsovereignty #BIPOCVegans

She helped change the landscape of the animal rights movement by teaching thousands of advocates about our rigged U.S. food system…but whatever happened to her vegan-backed federal lobbying group, Agriculture Fairness Alliance? @vegan_lobbyist speaks with our executive director @collectiveabolition about how far she’s come in her activism journey and what she now believes is the path forward towards collective liberation. #VeganBatGirl #VeganLobbyist #VeganInvestors #VeganBros #BIPOCVegans

This month we’re reading excerpts from William Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ alongside Lola Olvera’s Sentient Media article, ‘Protesters, Pigs and the Diversity Problem in Animal Welfare’. The texts do not sit comfortably together. What sounds like a scream of bloody murder in one becomes something else in the other, drawing us into questions of patriarchal violence, Black liberation politics, animal advocacy, and solidarity. Special guests @erin_wing720 and @whatisyouroffering joins APEX’s @the_christopher_sebastian and @collectiveabolition We’ll see you there! ✊🏿🧡🐷 #CollectiveLiberation #BlackLiberation #AnimalLiberation #TotalLiberation #LovePigsHateCops

Team APEX loves you, @chenoa_elizabeth 🧡 Let’s show her what community can do! 🔥 She needs $700 more to stay housed this month and will need an additional $4000 to make sure she’s housed for the remainder of the year. EVERY SINGLE contribution matters and will move her closer to her goal. Donate via the link in our bio or the links in @chenoa_elizabeth ‘s bio #collectiveliberation #mutualaid #totalliberation #BIPOCVegans animalliberation

It’s not her ministry 🤷🏾 It’s officially Disability Pride Month 🎉🧡 #staytuned #DisabilityPride #DisabledVegan #CollectiveLiberation #TotalLiberation

And there’s SO. MUCH. MORE. 😮‍💨 Full vid now available on the APEX Advocacy YouTube channel! @collectiveabolition chats with @vegan_lobbyist on the how the U.S. food system ensures that globally, animal products stay on our plates. If you care about animal justice, racial justice, and/or environmental justice, this is a MUST view video. #BlackFarmers #AnimalLiberation #CollectiveLiberation #ForTheAnimals #foodsovereignty

We support the resistance with our whole chests. #CollectiveLiberation #LongLivetheResistance

Meat, dairy, and white supremacy. More from U.S. food system expert @vegan_lobbyist explaining why restructuring the food system requires dismantling power. Early full interview access: APEX Advocacy Patreon #WhiteSupremacy #EconomicPower #VeganLobbyist #BurnItDown #BlackFarmers