Vegan fiction? An earth-centered future with Ray Star

A monthly conversation examining creatures, ecology, writing, film, music, art, science and pop culture, using three primary mediums: doodles, writing, and speech. Hosted by Juliana, she talks with documentary film makers, musicians and activists leading global protests.

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Juliana and author Ray Star examine common reactions to veganism, stereotypes around animal lives, the possibilities for artists to tell vegan stories, and the future they’d like to call in for all earthlings…using a little bit of magick.

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Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠

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⁠Ray Star is an Author and freelance writer from Essex in England.
Her debut novels, Earthlings and Dominion, books one and two of a young adult fantasy trilogy have won multiple awards and are Amazon Best-Sellers in multiple categories. The final instalment, Land of Hope and Glory, is eagerly awaited by readers and set for release in late 2023, having secured a three-book publishing deal with FCM Media & Chronos Publishing for the trilogy.
She is also a columnist for ​V-land UK.

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Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, ⁠⁠Final Curtain Call⁠⁠, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall’s Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.