Sunaura Taylor
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Writer, artist, scholar, crip parent. Author of Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert and Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
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Had such an incredible time at
@TucsonMoca
speaking about
#DisabledEcologies
with the amazing Lydia Otero on Thursday. Thank you Tucson for helping me celebrate this book! If you weren't able to pick up a copy there, you can use code EMAIL30 for 30% off:
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Currently on my way to my beloved Tucson, Arizona to kick off the release of my new book Disabled Ecologies! Wonderful to find that my interview with
@JarrardClayton
of New Books Network was just released! Thanks so much Clayton for a great conversation!
#DisabledEcologies
My conversation with
@sunaura_taylor
about her amazing new book Disabled Ecologies (
@ucpress
) is live on
@NewBooksNetwork
! I cannot recommend this book enough
Interview:
A full transcript of the interview is available in the episode description!
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Incredibly excited to have co-authored a piece with
@astradisastra
for this much needed package from
@voxdotcom
, "How Factory Farming Ends." Check out this great lineup of articles! Thanks
@mbolotnikova
for your amazing work on this!
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Cannot believe it's officially one week until Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert is born! This is one of those projects that is life work... I always knew I would write some version of it. Took me eight years, but here it is. Almost.
#DisabledEcologies
countdown.
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A gorgeous piece by the incomparable Alice Wong. "Being disabled in a nondisabled world is precarious, one of constant adaptation. I remade myself into a new cyborg form that still has a voice, a breath, and a will to live."
💀Death is my intimate shadow partner.
It is a disability intimacy.
I wrote for
@TIME
about my relationship with mortality as someone who just turned 50 as a disabled person.
Shit has been rough but I’m still fucking here
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"What is clear to me is that disabled people have never felt safe. Many of us view masking as a form of solidarity with workers, activists, and people of color all over the world fighting fascism and genocide. But mask bans send the message that it is a crime to be disabled."
Mask Bans Are an Insult to Disabled People and Protesters Alike
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Honored to be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts! The Dig! Interviewed by none other than my amazing sister
@astradisastra
! We discuss disability politics, my first book Beasts of Burden, and make a socialist feminist case for animal liberation. Enjoy!
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"If you stop food from going in and then you do start it again, it’s not like flipping a switch...The starving pregnant women and children... It’s going to have lifelong consequences for those people, [and] can even have epigenetic consequences for future generations."
Alex Smith is a former contractor for
@USAID
who says he was pushed out after preparing a presentation on maternal and child health impacts of the Israeli war on Gaza. In an exclusive interview, he details what happened and urges U.S. leaders to "stop gaslighting" the public.
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Wonderful to be interviewed by writer and ethologist
@MarcBekoff
about
#DisabledEcologies
.
Novel Ways to Understand and Rehabilitate a Disabled Planet
Dr. Sunaura Taylor's book "Disabled Ecologies" offers many unique perspectives.
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Thanks
@DeathPanel_
for having me on to discuss
#DisabledEcologies
! We talk about the mass multispecies disablement that comes from war industries; the poisoning of communities and aquifers; and why disability is an urgent--and too often ignored--part of the environmental story.
In our latest, we speak with
@sunaura_taylor
about how industrial pollution produces disability not just in humans and animals, but in “injured landscapes,” and about her phenomenal new book “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert”
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When writing
#DisabledEcologies
I was captivated by the polluted aquifer at the center of the story. I spent some time this summer writing about aquifers for
@Orion_Magazine
's Enumerations column. Here is some of what disability taught me about aquifers:
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I’m finally getting a chance to read this book. It is great, smart, and so so fun. With all the feminist cat memes going around it feels like a great time to remind folks to read it! Also one of the only academic books I have that my nine-year-old thinks looks cool!
@marxforcats
It's
#InternationalCatDay
! Check out some images and excerpts from our bestselling book "Marx for Cats" by Leigh Claire La Berge
@marxforcats
to celebrate.
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PFAS are now a serious issue in the same aquifer I write about in
#DisabledEcologies
, which from the 50s-70s was polluted with TCE by defense contractors. Southsiders in Tucson have been spared drinking PFAS only bc during the TCE era they fought for alternatively sourced water.
As public concern grows about the health and environmental impacts of so-called forever chemicals, a new investigation reveals that 3M, the American manufacturing giant, discovered and hid the risks of these toxic substances for decades.
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Absolutely the best part of 2021 for me was writing this essay with Astra
@astradisastra
. I hear it will be available online in January, but until then you can subscribe to Lux (so worth it bc Lux is rad!) to read now.
Subscribe to
@readlux
so you can read the long philosophical essay I wrote with my wise & wonderful sister
@sunaura_taylor
.
If you’ve been wondering — What does a socialist feminist analysis mean for our relationship to non-human animals? — this essay is for you!
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I am kicking off my east coast
#BookTour
for
#DisabledEcologies
tonight in NYC! Traveling presents unique challenges and adventures for wheelchair users, but I managed to fly across the country with my wheelchair intact!
#DisabledBookTour
. Here's the full list of stops:
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Thanks
#BostonReview
for publishing my piece "What Would Health Security Look Like?" "The future is disabled, but that need not be foreboding. It could signal a future that recognizes and supports our mutual vulnerability as creatures on this planet."
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oh this is exciting news from my publisher... A new quarterly online journal on Animal History!
UC Press Launches Animal History, Documenting the Histories of Animals and Human-Animal Relationships. From editors
@thomasaiello
, Susan Nance, and Daniel Vandersommers
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Everything’s better with
@astradisastra
! So excited about this.
Super excited to do a joint book event with my brilliant sister
@sunaura_taylor
to celebrate SOLIDARITY and DISABLED ECOLOGIES at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro. June 30.
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Crip community sign/share. War is always a disability issue, as Gaza is making tragically clear. "As a human rights movement, the disability rights community cannot remain silent. The unfolding tragedy calls for leadership, initiative, and action by all sectors of our community."
The global disability movement is not doing enough to stop the genocide & blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel.
The lives of Palestinians with disabilities depend on an immediate ceasefire. If you feel the same way, join us 🇵🇸♿️⬇️
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Same aquifer and culprits I write about in
#DisabledEcologies
. Same denial and abandonment, only this time the Air Force is relying on the Chevron Decision: "The clean drinking water and the health of hundreds of thousands of people hangs in the balance."
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Important piece on the environment, animal agriculture, and COVID-19: "Industrialized animal husbandry has done the most to return us to the stone age of public health."
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We need things to celebrate and this is worth celebrating. Happy book day to this gorgeous new book from Alice Wong and amazing collaborators!
📣 💐📚Happy book day to me! DISABILITY INTIMACY has been a labor of love that I worked on for the last 2 years. I hope you enjoy it.
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Very excited to be in conversation with Yomi Young on September 9th, 6pm at Pegasus Books in Berkeley! Join us for a reading and discussion of
#DisabledEcologies
!
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A tour de force is right. "WWF is hardly alone. Two of the other largest US environmental organizations — the Nature Conservancy and Environmental Defense Fund — also closely collaborate with large meat and dairy companies, ranchers, and trade groups on a range of initiatives."
Don't sleep on
@KennyTorrella
's tour de force — pretty sure the longest thing Vox has ever published — on how big green groups (WWF, Nature Conservancy & others) launder the meat industry's fake climate solutions, & how enviros can be pushed to do better
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TMW at CSUSB: Reading from my new book Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. I'll discuss the human and more-than-human trails of injury that have long emerged from war industry pollution, and about how one incredible community fought back.
#DisabledEcologies
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CA! Don't be fooled by Prop 1. "With over $14 million in financing from rich special interests, Newsom and California’s big city mayors are promoting Proposition 1 not to improve mental health care for Californians, but to remove people without housing from sight." Vote NO!
If you live in California and are planning to voting in the primary in the next few days read this op-ed by Katherine Wolf on Prop 1 which will force houseless people into institutions, a return of asylums
#CAPrimary
#CripTheVote
#Election2024
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Thanks
@BostonReview
for interviewing me about
#DisabledEcologies
. "In a remarkably fertile inquiry, Taylor takes insights from disability studies and environmental justice and arrives at new revelations that enrich both movements"
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Had a great time talking to
@PodcastGreenRed
about
#DisabledEcologies
~NEW EPISODE~
Lessons from Tucson’s poisoned aquifer.
In our latest episode, we talk about disabled ecologies w/ Prof.
@sunaura_taylor
.
🎙️:
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No where I'd rather be to celebrate the launch of Disabled Ecologies than Tucson! So honored to be in conversation with beloved Tucson historian Lydia Otero at Tucson MOCA. Thursday May 23rd, 5pm.
@MOCATucson
#DisabledEcologies
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It has been such a fun first week of being out in the world for my book
#DisabledEcologies
, with beautiful community helping me to celebrate this book in two of the places I love and call home, Tucson and Berkeley. Thanks to everyone who made these events possible!
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"While according to official statistics, approximately 2.4 percent of the population in Gaza are disabled people and disabled children make up one-fifth of that population, it also has been argued that the genocide... has effectively rendered every Palestinian in Gaza disabled.."
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So fun to be on The Curious Professor. We cover a lot: From my new book
#DisabledEcologies
, to my first book Beasts of Burden, to growing up an unschooler obsessed with art. We even discuss the gendered and disability history of the term Zoophilpsychosis.
On the latest episode of my
#podcast
,
@sunaura_taylor
discusses the intersection of
#Disability
studies,
#EnvironmentalJustice
, animal studies, and art practice. I hope you'll check out this engaging discussion.
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Thank you
@thrasherxy
for this. "The conditions before, during and after the lockdown are part of a continuum in America—a miserable nation maintained by policing."
"Proportionate Response: When destroying a police precinct is a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable killing." My latest essay in
@Slate
, on how what finally drew America out of lockdown & into crowds again was protesting racism and the police state
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Kind words about my work on aquifers from someone who has thought a lot about the underlands we all live with. Thank you
@RobGMacfarlane
.
“Worldwide more than 21 of Earth’s 37 major aquifer systems are on the verge of collapse due to depletion. For their and our well-being, it is urgent we begin to imagine them differently.”
@sunaura_taylor
excellent on the vital, undersung work of aquifers.
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If reading is more your thing, here's the transcript from my conversation with
@DeathPanel_
about
#Disabledecologies
.
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Everyone needs to read this. "Jana Elkahlout was killed because of the Israeli Occupation Forces’ attacks and siege on Gaza... just four days after she turned 13-years-old, oceans away from her mom, dad and siblings and living in impossibly inhumane circumstances..."
All new guest blog post by
@nellybassily
about the struggle of one family to get their disabled daughter, Jana, out of Gaza
A must-read
#FreePalestine
#CripTheVote
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Fund education, Not Genocide. So proud of my amazing sister
@astradisastra
and the incredible work of
@StrikeDebt
for their ongoing work showing what solidarity across movements can look like.
In DC for our Fund Education, Not Genocide.
What a moving day of solidarity demanding we divest from war and invest in life.
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Very excited to be in conversation with the one and only
@MitchJeserich
about my book
#DisabledEcologies
. May 29th at Book Inc. in Berkeley!
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@astradisastra
and I at it again: "Progressives have too often overlooked the misdeeds of animal industries while buying into the image of animal activists as fringe and extreme ... This image is taken straight from the animal industries’ playbook."
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Great to share about my new book
#DisabledEcologies
on the
@DeathPanel_
.
In our latest, we speak with
@sunaura_taylor
about her phenomenal new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
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@DanielDenvir
@thedigradio
@astradisastra
Thanks
@DanielDenvir
for inviting
@astradisastra
and I to do this interview. Excited to share it.
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Support
#SICKOUTNYU
! Grad demands must be met
#SICKOUTNYU
is officially underway
#NYUinCrisis
Stay tuned as we INSIST that NYU admin come to the table! After May 15 we are not paid again until September 1: the crisis is URGENT! 110 TAs have pledged to call in sick AND WE ARE SICK!
@nyuniversity
must act
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I'm late to the party on this, but my eight year old and I just read
@shang_melissa
's book "Mia Lee is Wheeling through Middle School." It is so so great! Share it with the disability community kids in your life! Actually any kid!
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The disturbing (and ridiculous) influence of the milk industry. I once came upon a conversation among kids at my child's school, where they were discussing how gross it is that they are always given milk. They wondered why grownups weren't offering healthy options... Here's why.
Students throw away 41% of milk. To reduce waste, a couple schools hung these posters. Industry complained, and USDA sent out a nationwide memo partially drafted by industry on how water “should not be made available in any manner that interferes" with milk.
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"Jana is unfortunately not the only disabled child in Gaza that was killed due to malnutrition and lack of access to needed medicines because of Israel’s criminal blocking of humanitarian aid in Gaza."
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So excited for the future of disability arts and disability culture! Love seeing all the amazing work coming from disabled artists!! Congrats Disability Futures Fellows!
#disabilityfutures
The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation have named the recipients of the 2024 Disability Futures Fellowship, a program established in 2020 aimed at elevating and celebrating the work of disabled practitioners working across multiple creative fields.
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Very proud of students here at UC Berkeley and across the country for refusing to accept this ongoing genocide as normal or inevitable.
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Learning so much from the brilliant
@mayaywind
right now, and their new and urgent book Towers of Ivory and Steel.
Towers of Ivory and Steel
Join
@mayaywind
,
@NadiaAbuElHaj1
, and
@NaomiAKlein
for a conversation about how Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians, w/
@VersoBooks
Tuesday, April 2nd at 7:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend:
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@DorfmanDoron
Thanks for reading it! Cats are always the harshest critics. Hope Shangela (and you) find it useful!
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Love this. The fabulous
@LCarterLong
on living an artful life.
"If we dig a bit deeper into the root of the word inspire, it means a compulsion to act, to foster, and to facilitate change. And so, if we use that definition,
#inspiration
becomes a
#verb
."
#ArtfulLife
@NEAarts
interview w/
@LCarterLong
. TY! 🙏
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Makes my heart so full to read about Jeremy Ayers and Limbo District. Jeremy was, and remains, an unmatched mentor in living a magical life. So glad to see his unique exuberant spirit being celebrated and remembered. We need more Jeremys in this world.
Love this article about Limbo District, the short-lived underground Athens, GA band that influenced a whole generation of musicians—a band led by the much-missed bohemian icon and tenderhearted Jeremy Ayers, whose impact on my life cannot be overstated.💚
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“The reason we cry tears isn’t sadness anymore. It’s the feeling that we have no ability to get the most powerful country in the world to stop the bombs.”
There's a jarring contrast between the pageantry of the DNC main stage, and the somberness and urgency of those begging Dems, particularly presidential nominee Harris, to reverse their lockstep arming of Israel’s relentless killing campaign. My latest.
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We already know Biden and his team are lacking in conscience, but where is this administration's sense of self-preservation? This is an unconscionable strategy and a losing one.
Reporter: Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region?
Biden: No
Apparently Biden is not swayed by the mass killing of children, international law, or an election as a growing number of Americans are appalled by his policies.
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@ashleyshoo
Well, old is classic! Which Against Technoableism certainly is! Plus I worked of Disabled Ecologies for 8 looooong years, so my cultural references are pretty old too. Crip time.
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Sending so much gratitude to the thousands of protestors rallying around Capitol Hill right now.
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@ZEisenstein
@astradisastra
Thank you
@ZEisenstein
for ordering and reading Disabled Ecologies, especially reading alongside
@astradisastra
and Leah's wonderful Solidarity!
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"What I want to say to you tonight at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again. They are enraptured by it. Drunk on it. Profaned by it. That false idol is called Zionism."
Last night's Emergency Seder in the Street in NYC was a powerful embodiment of the spirit of Passover.
The Guardian published the text of my speech:
"Exodus from Zionism"
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Always a good idea to tune into Democracy Now, but especially when Professor Steven Thrasher is on.
Prof.
@thrasherxy
brushes off the ridiculous personal attacks against his character & focuses on how these hearings seek to manufacture consent & silence protest. He reminds us of what he has witnessed at the Gaza solidarity encampments: “they are dynamic, pedagogical spaces.”
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@RebeccaSolnit
@astradisastra
Thanks
@RebeccaSolnit
. I love how these books relate to each other as well. Grateful to have amazing writers in my life.
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@triofrancos
@thedigradio
Thank you
@triofrancos
! You could do a lot of cooking while listening to that episode.... it is long.
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