Below: Photos of my Halloween costume mentioned in the Vegan S’Mores podcast episode: “Vegan Convo Success Story + My Costume Made Everyone Uncomfortable”
Sending the “right” message is difficult. How to get people to notice/care?
Leah Garces wrote an article on what she’s found works on social media. I agree, and wonder if it’s the same for in-person activism?
“Experimenting with messaging on social media has taught me something uncomfortable: knowing as much as I do about the harms of factory farming can actually get in the way of communicating it to everyone else”
I’m not sure that my wording and facts were the most effective way to get people to think about dairy cows. But, I did my best. If I were to do it again, I’d probably soften some of it. Because when we share too much at once, people shut us out.
Until every cage is empty…