Jenny Kendler, author at Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Reader-R-logo-icon-32x32.png Jenny Kendler, author at Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com 32 32 196496116 Rats have empathy for strangers, but do we? https://chicagoreader.com/columns-opinion/rats-have-empathy/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:48:35 +0000 https://chicagoreader.com/?p=10994914 a brown mouse pokes it's head out of a flower pot

OK, here we go: I’m writing an op-ed to defend rats. Not a popular stance, I am aware.  In my practice as an artist concerned with climate change and biodiversity loss, I suggest that we must move beyond human supremacy if we are to come back into alignment with a world pushed dangerously out of […]

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