ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND: In her essay, “The Pandemic is a Portal”, Arundhati Roy conjectured that COVID-19 could ignite a reckoning. Was it possible that our extractive orientation to the earth and living beings could pivot to an economy of care?… As it happens, Wuhan’s caged pangolins are conceptually related to a Big Apple pachyderm, since the … Continue reading THE THING IS: New York Court of Appeals to consider animal personhood