Lierre Keith

Lierre Keith (; born 1964) is an American writer, radical feminist, anti-transgender activist, and food activist.

Biography

She began her public involvement in the feminist movement as the founding editor of Vanessa and Iris: A Journal for Young Feminists (1983–1985). During that period, she worked with the Women Against Violence Against Women group in Cambridge, participating in educational events and protest campaigns.

Keith was an early public advocate of the U.S. local food movement. In a 2006 Boston Globe report, she said, "I like knowing that I'm supporting the local economy, and not corporate America."

Her views have been criticized by some vegetarians, in what one journalist has called a "Vegan War". During a presentation of her book The Vegetarian Myth at the 2010 Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, protesters hit Keith with chili pepper-laced pies. Keith responded by denouncing the act as "coward" and asking her assailants to direct their "herbivorous rage" at the powerful.

The Vegetarian Myth Keith's 2009 book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability is a controversial examination of the ecological effects of agriculture and vegetarianism. In The Vegetarian Myth, she offers evidence of agriculture destroying entire eco-systems, such as the North American prairie. She also argues in favour of animal agriculture over plant agriculture, citing that the latter destroys topsoil, The book describes itself as a "manual on how to build a resistance movement that will bring down industrial civilization and save the planet", and "evaluates strategic options for resistance, from non-violence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful". Deep Green Resistance has disputed this account, saying that the women's safe space policy was one issue among many, and that the decision to restrict women's spaces was made by the women of DGR, and not by Jensen or Keith.

Women's Liberation Front

Keith is a founder of the Women's Liberation Front, and, , serves as its chair. Women's Liberation Front has been described as an hate group by the University of Wisconsin Law School QLaw student organization and the Gender Justice League.

Works Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company). 2021. Earth at Risk: Building a Resistance Movement to Save the Planet (edited by L.K. and Derrick Jensen), PM Press, 2012, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (written by L.K., Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay), Seven Stories Press, 2011, The Vegetarian Myth, PM Press, 2009, Skyler Gabriel, Fighting Words Pr, 1995, Conditions of War, Fighting Words Pr, 1993,