By Anthony Marcusa / Source: Ecorazzi

In a focused effort to celebrate and champion the work of women animal rights activists comes Unbound, a multimedia and book project honoring those who fight for animals around the world while chronicling the history being made in the present.

A collaboration between photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur (founder of We Animals, and the subject of the documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine) and Dr. Keri Cronin, Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, Unbound is about ‘women on the front lines of animal advocacy,’ serving to promote, inspire, educate, and catalog.

While this project will eventually find itself as a published book, Unbound will share stories, editorials, photographs, and interviews across its website and on social media.

“I’ve dreamt of doing a project about women in animal advocacy for quite a few years,” writes McArthur. “The list of inspiring women has been taped to my wall, with names added monthly. A big part of the reason I’m an activist is that I had women to look up to. I saw Jane Goodall living this extraordinary life, creating change, and I thought ‘I want to do that, too.’”

The project looks to update regularly, and there is already an opportunity to promote and nominate those worthy, inspiring activists who should be honoured.

“Some of these women were recognized as ‘leaders’ in their own day, but many others toiled away with little recognition,” writes Cronin. “I have been working for a few years to piece together their stories, and it is my sincere hope that the Unbound Project will generate even more information about the brave and inspiring women who fought for animals in previous generations.”

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