John Sears | January 28, 2013
We have often lamented the brusque treatment the Differently Animated receive from today’s scientists and scholars here at the ZRC Blog. It seems like Zombies exist only to be exploited by the ivory tower, only discussed in terms of eradication and control, not reason and understanding. Much as the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ is used to promote [...]
John Sears | January 11, 2013
(Naturally, the ZRC does not mean to condemn all Kansans for the actions of a distasteful few; the title is a reference to the famous and hotly-debated political work, ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’ by Thomas Frank) A story came into the ZRC’s inbox a while back about an Anti-Zombie militia in Kansas and it [...]
John Sears | November 9, 2012
The ZRC was alerted recently to a Living Supremacist movie with a twist – it was filmed at CERN, home of the famous Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle collider and general super-science Ground Zero. This doesn’t sound good for Zombies or science. Not at all: If you ever thought CERN would be a [...]
John Sears | November 3, 2012
I’ll readily admit, I’m not much of an outdoors person. I don’t know, for example, the proper way to use a signal mirror. I imagine that many of our Undead clients, previously being from all walks of Life, are the same way. And yet rather than market toward the Undead camping demographic, major retailer REI [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2012
I apologize for the lateness of this update, Zombie Rights allies; a late arrival back in Madison, law school demands and even an internet outage delayed its writing and posting. Last Saturday we took our Zombie Rights advocacy on the road to Nightmare on Chicago Street, the second annual Elgin Halloween celebration (which we support) [...]
John Sears | October 29, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has addressed the issue of Anti-Zombie bias in Joss Whedon’s work before, but I have to admit I didn’t think Mr. Whedon would air his Living Supremacist dirty laundry again in such a high-profile fashion, especially in a naked attempt to influence a major election. But he has. So let’s talk [...]
John Sears | October 26, 2012
Last year The Zombie Rights Campaign was privileged to bring a Zombie Friendly perspective to the intimidatingly-awesome (yet Living Supremacist) event ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ in Elgin, IL. We wrote about that experience here, here, and here. ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’, to refresh memories, is no ordinary Halloween party. No sir. It’s more like an [...]
John Sears | October 23, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has sadly attended its last Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, this year, as the 2012 edition was the last that will be hosted in that fair city. We’ve been going to these things for a long time, even before the Zombie Rights Campaign started its bold mission to protect [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2012
Zombies as a community face a lot of trials in our contemporary society: open scapegoating and fearmongering from a hostile media, overtly violent attacks by Survivalists, governmental oppression. It’s also worth noting, however, the way private sector institutions discriminate against the Undead, depriving them of vital services. Case in point: Life Insurance. Clearly Zombies have [...]
John Sears | October 10, 2012
This post is just a reminder that the ZRC is looking forward to seeing you, the Zombie Friendly public, at TWO upcoming events in the month of October! First is The Dark Carnival Film Festival from October 19th-21st in Bloomington, Indiana. We’ve been to every Dark Carnival film festival and it’s proven to be an [...]