Tongue-Tied

Tongue-Tied: Breaking the Language Barrier to Animal Liberation
by Hanh Nguyen

Words matter—they mold and mirror our values and our reality. And so it is with the language that we use to think and talk about species other than our own. In Tongue-Tied, Hanh Nguyen unpacks the many metaphors, meanings, and grammatical formulations that speak to and echo our physical exploitation of other-than-human animals and shows how they constrain our ability to relate to our animal kin fairly and honestly.

Full of subtle insights and richly suggestive observations—and drawing from Nguyen's own cross-cultural experiences—Tongue-Tied offers a glimpse into a language that is freed from euphemistic self-deception, one that accepts definition without limitation and difference without hierarchy.