HORSE, FIRST - with Lockie Phillips

The Horse Is a Trojan Horse (With Author Sophie Strand)

HORSE, FIRST - with Lockie Phillips

Show Notes

What if our relationship with horses is a Trojan horse into an entirely different relationship with the living world?

Writer and ecological thinker Sophie Strand joins Lockie Phillips to explore horses as a doorway into ecology, animism, illness, embodiment, and the strange possibility that loving another species might fundamentally change how we understand our place on Earth.

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