This paper will begin with a brief discussion of the atypical handling of unnamed and unidentified persons in the Lyon in Mourning project. TEI projects tend to emphasise named persons, but we used TEI to highlight unnamed persons as well, with three effects: to draw attention to the fullness of their historical subjectivity, to analyse patterns of silence in the text, and to invite website users to contribute identifying information to the project’s personography. Connections between naming, power, and privilege are even clearer when focus is expanded beyond the human. Although the Lyon in Mourning project is more than usually attentive to marginalised subjects, in limiting focus to human persons it remains anthropocentric, reflecting a broader problem in humanities scholarship and the TEI. The rest of the paper will: provide a cursory sketch of the many harms of anthropocentrism from a Critical Animal Studies perspective, which sees liberatory projects (such as the conference themes of anti-racism, feminism, and decolonial practice, but also animal liberation) as inextricably entangled; acquaint attendees with challenges researchers of more-than-human subjects encounter in traditional as well as digital archives; and open discussion of possible solutions through TEI methods, particularly through engagement with the proposed <entity> element, suggesting instead a <being> element that draws on Maneesha Deckha’s concept of “beingness” as a more just and capacious alternative to personhood frameworks.