Announcing HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene

Our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for our forthcoming book, HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene, surpassed our initial funding goal in just over 72 hours! 

We are thrilled that we’ve raised the initial funds necessary to publish HIDDEN. However, our work doesn’t end there. We’ve set our sights on an exciting new target, one that has always been at the heart of both WAM’s mission and our hopes for this book — to circulate these images and the discourse they invite as widely as possible.

Our target is to sell 1,000 books and we’re nearly there. If we reach our goal, We Animals Media will commit to sending 100 books across the globe to people and organizations of influence: politicians, chefs, journalists, podcasters, teachers, NGOs, and world leaders. We’re really excited about this initiative and we’d love your input. If there’s someone you’d like to nominate to receive a book, drop us a note at books@weanimals.org. If you have an address for us, even better.

To reach this goal, we ask that you share this project far and wide. Share the link to this page, talk about the project within your networks and share on social media. Don’t forget to tag us @weanimals, and use our hashtags: #HIDDENbook and #animalsintheanthropocene. We know that with your help, and thanks to our generous publishing partners, we can make this happen.

The stories within its pages are revelatory and brutal. They are proof of the emergency confronting animals globally, from industrial farming to climate change, and provide valuable insight into the relevance of animal suffering to human health.

We are also honoured that the book’s foreword will be written by none other than longtime vegan animal rights advocate, Joaquin Phoenix:

“The photojournalists represented in HIDDEN have entered some of the darkest, most unsettling places in the world. The images they have captured are a searing reminder of our unpardonable behavior towards animals and will serve as beacons of change for years to come.”

The We Animals Media team knew that HIDDEN was an important idea, and judging by the awesomely fast outpouring of support, it is apparent that the time is now for a book of this scale and scope. With that reality comes the exciting next step of getting this book into as many hands as possible. With help from you, our community, we’ll be identifying the politicians, chefs, teachers, NGOs, and world leaders who need to see HIDDEN for themselves.

But first, we are asking for your help with our next step: 1,000 books.

We are thrilled that we’ve now raised the initial funds necessary to publish HIDDEN. However, our work doesn’t end here. We are now at the starting line of a new goal: to share this critical book with as many people as possible.

Having surpassed our original fundraising goal of $65,000, we’ve set our sights on an exciting new target. What we’re now calling our stretch goal, has in reality, always been at the heart of both WAM’s mission and our hopes for this book — to circulate these images and the discourse they invite as widely as possible.

Our new target is to sell 1,000 books by June 7, 2020. It’s a BIG goal, but given the interest in the book thus far, we feel confident that together we can do it! If we reach our goal, We Animals Media will commit to sending 100 books across the globe to people and organizations of influence: politicians, chefs, journalists, podcasters, teachers, NGOs, and world leaders. We’re really excited about this next step and we’d love your input. If there’s someone you’d like to nominate to receive a book, drop us a note at books@weanimals.org. If you have an address for us, even better!

To reach this goal, we ask that you share this project far and wide. Share the link to this page, talk about the project within your networks and share on social media. Don’t forget to tag us @weanimals, and use our hashtags: #HIDDENbook and #AnimalsintheAnthropocene. We know that with your help, and thanks to our generous publishing partners, we can make this happen.

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As always, thank you for your continued dedication to animals.