Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Pax Ahimsa Gethen is a queer black vegan activist, blogger, and photographer. Assigned female at birth, Pax has legally and medically transitioned to male, but identifies as agender and uses gender-neutral pronouns (they/them/their).

Pax writes about gender and social justice issues, with a particular focus on cissexism (oppression of transgender and non-binary people) and speciesism (oppression of non-human animals). Their approach to animal rights activism is based on the standpoint that animals are people, not property, and that veganism is a social justice issue, not a diet. As part of their advocacy, Pax serves on the advisory board of Black Vegans Rock.

Pax has volunteered for food justice organizations in San Francisco, growing, preparing, and distributing vegan-friendly food to the needy. They believe that free access to healthy plant-based food should be a universal human right.

Pax owns an event photography business, specializing in the performing arts, and makes their photos freely available under Creative Commons licensing.

Pax currently lives in San Francisco with their partner Ziggy.

Pax's web site is http://funcrunch.org/.