The Intersections of Species Politics, Colonialism, Food Justice, and Gender in Okja

By Tori Lion, CF Toronto Organizer ​(Please note that this article contains spoilers.) ​Recently, after completing an intensive course, I finally had the opportunity to watch Bong Joon-ho’s new film, Okja, which has been receiving a lot of attention in the vegan and nonhuman animal rights activist communities. Aside from applauding it for being a beautiful film that will hopefully inspire many viewers to consider the subjectivity of nonhuman animals reduced to commodities within the agricultural industrial complex, I would like to focus on the interesting opportunities that it presents to elucidate the intersections between species ...