Wicked: For Animals?

Sunday, 25 January 2026 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Photo of Lottie, Ruby and Claire in the 3CR studio

Claire, Ruby, Lottie and Nick discuss the animal rights themes in the Wicked movie series. We also explore representations of racism and ableism in the movies, as well as connections between racism, ableism and animal oppression.

 

 Resources on overlapping human and animal oppression:

 Food Empowerment Project on slavery: https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/

 Food Empowerment Project on environmental racism: https://foodispower.org/environmental-and-global/environmental-racism/

 Disability and animals: https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/beasts-of-burden-w-sunaura-taylor/

 

 Music:

 Animal Liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/

 Something Bad and Defying Gravity from the Wicked movies.