Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter

Louis van den Hengel; Leonie Cornips; Daniel Hellmann; Chris  Rijksen; Bart Peters; Ari Snow; Soya the Cow; Piet

Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter

Louis van den Hengel
, Leonie Cornips
, Daniel Hellmann
, Chris Rijksen (Producer)
, Bart Peters (Photographer)
, Ari Snow (Photographer)
, Soya the Cow (Performer)
, Piet (Performer)

Care Ethics

Research output: Online publication or non-textual form › Digital or visual product › Popular

Abstract

Piet & Soya harnesses the power of queer imagination to reveal something profoundly real about the world we share. This collaborative project brings together human and nonhuman actors—Soya the Cow (Daniel), an intersex bull (Piet), a cow linguist (Leonie), and a queer theorist (Louis)—to tell a story of resistance, fluidity, and multispecies kinship. Through this lens, the film challenges gender norms and extractive human-cow relations, reimagining intimacy and care beyond fixed human binaries and oppressive hierarchies.

Original language	English
Publisher	De Transketeers
Media of output	Film
Publication status	Published - 2025

Themes from the UHS research agenda

Art, imagination and society
Care, welfare and flourishing
Justice, diversity and inclusion

2 Research Presentation
1 Other
1 Guest Lecture
1 Invited talk

In de echo van een koe: Luisteren voorbij de mens
van den Hengel, L. (Invited speaker)
2 Jun 2026
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Three Queers and a Drag Cow
van den Hengel, L. (Speaker)
12 Jul 2025
Activity: Talk or presentation › Research Presentation
Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter
van den Hengel, L. (Speaker) & Cornips, L. (Speaker)
6 Mar 2025
Activity: Talk or presentation › Research Presentation

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Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter

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Themes from the UHS research agenda

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In de echo van een koe: Luisteren voorbij de mens

Three Queers and a Drag Cow

Piet & Soya: A Queer Interspecies Encounter

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