Interspecies Sovereignty and Chosen Coexistence

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Against the Logic of Possession

In most human-animal relationships,
presence is extracted through control.
Animals are bought, renamed, enclosed, assigned roles —
to soothe, to serve, to complete the human.

The Ethics of Chosen Presence

a forgotten model of relation is:
not love based on dependency,
but love based on reiteration without capture.

The purest intimacy is:
not the one you earn,
but the one you never expect —
yet continues to appear.

Refusal of Institutional Care

Animal shelters, pet stores, breeding centers —
they turn animals into products of redemption.
They package need as virtue.
They fabricate stories of rescue
to mask the machinery of consumption.

The Sovereign Until the End

To love an animal is not to hold them.
It is to let them pass freely through your life
with all their opacity intact.

Not all love is measured by permanence.
Some loves are sacred precisely because they are never held.