The Zombie Rights Campaign Blog

‘Zombie Awareness Month’ Shouldn’t Be An Occasion For Spreading Hate

| May 7, 2011

You might think that the ZRC would be happy that this has apparently been declared ‘Zombie Awareness Month’. After all, Zombies do need more awareness – of their plight in society, their legal disenfranchisement, of the media’s endless campaign of misinformation against them and of the need for reform. Sadly, however, that is precisely the [...]

McPherson College Libary System Hates Zombies, Loves Deus Ex Machina

| April 23, 2011

I’m really stunned at some of the stuff we come across here at the ZRC. For example, McPherson College, an allegedly liberal-arts oriented school, is actually putting out a viciously Living Supremacist comic book to promote the use of its library services: Follow the link to enjoy our finished Zombie Guide to Miller Library! There [...]

Zombies are Always Hungry and Other Oversimplifications

| April 18, 2011

As much as I suspect you love it when I latch on to a quasi-academic excuse to be prejudiced against the Differently Animated, I had to comment on this one from The Zombie Feed: “But Where Did All You Zombies Come From?” by Brandon Alspaugh Zombies are always hungry. I had begun a fairly dry, [...]

Incredibly Detailed, Incredibly Flawed Piece on ‘Zombies’ in the Whedonverse

| April 6, 2011

First, let me say, wow. This is one of the densest and most complicated analyses of Zombie media I’ve ever seen. Second, of course, I have to say that it’s very deeply flawed and obviously incorrect on a number of points. This PopMatters article, entitled ‘Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, and Actuals in Joss Whedon’s Work’, by [...]

New ‘Documentary’ Degrades Zombie Women by Extolling Negative Stereotypes in Film

| April 5, 2011

This kind of speaks for itself, but what the hey: The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into “”Sexy Female Zombies””. What is it about Zombie Bimbos or “”Zimbies”” that are starting to gain the worlds interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture [...]

Dr. Steven Schlozman of Harvard Rehashes His Hatred to Sell New Anti-Zombie Book

| April 2, 2011

We last talked about Dr. Steven Schlozman when the ZRC highlighted how a Harvard professor was pushing hate in a seminar for Living Supremacists. As disturbing as that was, it pales in comparison to the news that Dr. Schlozman has a new ‘novel’ out leveraging his medical expertise to spread more hate and fear about [...]

Jovanka Vuckovic Appears to Miss Zombie Forest for the Differently Animated Trees in New Illustrated Tome on the History of Zombies

| March 17, 2011

The news is going around the web about a book that the former Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue magazine has coming out about Zombies: The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With [...]

‘How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse’ Show Comes to US

| February 17, 2011

We’ve mentioned the spinoff book from this touring comedy troupe/Anti-Zombie hate brigade before here on the ZRC, but British Anti-Zombie fanatics behind ‘How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse’ are coming to the United States: The team behind the award winning, sell out, cult, comedy seminar ‘How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse’ are about to take [...]

Professor from My Alma Mater Peddles Anti-Zombie Bigotry

| February 5, 2011

I was really saddened to hear about this story featuring an Anti-Zombie professor from my undergrad school, Indiana University: There is something keeping Stephen Watt up at night, and it’s not vampires, demons or malignant pudding, but rather a simple question: why is it that Americans love killing zombies? Watt, an English professor from Indiana [...]

South Carolina School Almost Shut Down a ‘Zombie Appreciation’ Club to Get at Gay Students

| February 3, 2011

Here is yet another story illustrating why the Zombie Rights movement is a natural ally to other oppressed minorities and their own quests for civil rights: Summerville High School and Fort Dorchester High School are lucky enough to have a Gay Straight Alliance even though they’re located in the the relatively socially conservative state of [...]