Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Listen, we all bleed.

Animal voices, radical art.
New Rivers Press, 1 November 2021

Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s essay collection, Listen, we all bleed, published by New Rivers Press, is about radical artists from around the world whose anti-anthropocentric works use recordings of nonhuman voices to plead for an end to violence against nonhuman animals. Central to this book is the importance of listening—just listening—as a creative effort that is also an activist act. Listen, we all bleed includes reflections on the work of Kathryn Eddy, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Robbie Judkins, mOwson&M0wson, Dave Phillips, Colleen Plumb, Quiet Ensemble, Hiroki Sasajima, Andrew Stevenson, Jana Winderen, and Eisuke Yanagisawa. Listen, we all bleed has been nominated for the PEN/Galbraith Nonfiction Award, PEN Open Book Award, and Foreword INDIES Book Award.

"In this beautifully subtle, intricately woven text, Mandy-Suzanne Wong entreats you to listen, to really listen, to the nonhuman. And even if this listening makes you feel uncomfortable, ashamed, guilty, she dares you to persist. Moving seamlessly among the works of artists devoted to nonhuman voices, she manages to relay a myriad of worlds beyond our own, each with its own infinite complexity and beauty. Reading this book, hearing and loving the nonhuman, should prompt you to be passionate about saving this world that we have so thoroughly ravaged." (Tracy McDonald, editor of ZOO STUDIES)