Sunaura C Taylor
Julious SchlosburgSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, activist, academic and mother. She is author of “Disabled Ecologies” and “Beasts of Burden." which received the 2018 American Book Award. Taylor works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental justice, multispecies studies, and art practice. She is an assistant professor in the Division of Society and Environment, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley and was born in Tucson.
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Awards: American Book Award
Communities: Tucsonan, Person with a Disability
Books:
Disabled Ecologies
Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Nature / Environment
Univ of California Press
August 2025
ISBN 9780520424692
368 pages
A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site’s disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.
What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires. More/less
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation
Nature / Environment
New Press
January 2017
ISBN 9781620971284
260 pages
