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Writer, theorist and academic Aph Ko is the founder of Black Vegans Rock – a digital project dismantling the stereotype that ‘black people aren’t vegan’, and creating a space to highlight the journeys and thoughts of black vegans, as well as their reasons for going vegan.
According to Aph, in creating blackvegansrock.com, she wanted to build a platform that offered an online community for vegans of colour, especially in response to the amount of racism in the mainstream vegan movement. So far this has been very effective, with a daily celebration of either a black vegan or an event that centres on black vegans, every day. The ultimate aim is to move BVR offline, creating meet-ups where attendees can ‘read different critical articles and books by black and brown revolutionaries and have challenging conversations about animality and race.’