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A Lifetime Dedicated to
Vegan Animal Rights Advocacy
After working in a chicken slaughterhouse, I became a vegetarian in 1974. Two years later, I was a vegan working for Compassion In World Farming and its campaigns against imprisoning egg-laying hens in cages and confining pigs in stalls too narrow for them to turn around.
My life as a vegan is dedicated to animal rights
I have 50-plus years of personal commitment as a vegan and professional experience in leadership positions as a full-time employee, volunteer, board member, and independent consultant with some of the world’s foremost animal rights organisations.
Few people can say they’ve gone from working in a chicken slaughterhouse to becoming PETA’s first executive director (1987-1992), and the British Library holds their research materials as the Kim Stallwood Archive.
My commitment is as strong today, if not even more passionate and urgent. Now, I work as an animal rights author, curator, and scholar.
My new book, 50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism, includes highlights and accomplishments, along with articles that describe my work and explain my ideas. It is published in a strictly limited edition of 100 copies. Each one is numbered and signed. You can buy all my books from my shop.
For a limited period, you can download a free digital copy of the book in ePub or PDF format directly here.
The best way to stay in touch with me is on Substack. It is an online publishing and newsletter platform where I regularly post articles, updates, and news. Join me on Substack with an annual pledge of £60 to receive a complimentary printed copy of 50 Years of Vegan Animal Rights Activism and a free PDF copy to read on your personal devices.
My work as a curator preserving the history of animal rights includes the Kim Stallwood Archive at the British Library and the Kim Stallwood Collection at the Zurich-based animal law organisation Tier im Recht.
I’m currently writing the life story of Topsy, the female Asian elephant electrocuted to death on Coney Island, New York, in 1903. My first book, Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate (Lantern), was published in 2014 with a foreword by the musician Brian May.
I have contributed to several academic and popular anthologies about Topsy, animal biography, and movement strategy. I help to bring together the animal rights movement and the academic field of human-animal studies in the humanities and social sciences.
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Topsy The Elephant
A Biography of an Elephant
Kim is writing the biography of Topsy, the female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death on Coney Island, New York in 1903. The narrative is written from various sources, from fiction to contemporary science, to tell the story of an individual animal’s life and the larger view of the plight of her kind, and animals generally.
The Topsy Project
The Life and Death of an Elephant
The Topsy Project is an art-based initiative dedicated to challenging her life story—currently told as a villain who killed people—to replace it with her true story, as a victim who had to defend herself from a lifetime of abuse.
The Kim Stallwood Archive
The British Library, London
In 2020 The British Library in London established the Kim Stallwood Archive, an extensive collection of 800 organisation, people, and subject files, including correspondence, manuscripts, meeting notes, and press cuttings chronicling his involvement with the international Animal Rights Movement dating from the mid-1970s onwards as part of their modern history archive.
The Kim Stallwood Collection
Tier im Recht, Switzerland
The Swiss-based animal law foundation, Tier im Recht, acquired the Kim Stallwood Collection in 2021. The publications, audio-visual materials, artefacts, posters, and much more became part of TIR’s extensive and professionally managed library and archive. Kim’s library of more than 2,000 books is scheduled to also go to TIR’s offices in Zurich.
