Tucson Festival of Books | Sunaura C Taylor

Sunaura C Taylor

Julious Schlosburg

Sunaura 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

Scheduled events:

(In)visible Harms & Toxic Truths

Join authors Mariah Blake, Sunaura Taylor, and Sharon Udasin for a powerful conversation on the human and ecological costs of industrial pollution. From corporate cover-ups and wounded landscapes to disabled ecologies and communities fighting for justice, this panel exposes urgent environmental harms and the movements rising to confront them.

National Park Experience Stage (Seats 146, Wheelchair accessible)

Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Nature / Environment
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - National Parks (following presentation)

Panelists: Mariah Blake, Sunaura Taylor, Sharon Udasin
Moderator: Patty Machelor
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Western National Parks

Books:

Disabled Ecologies

Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Nature / Environment
Univ of California Press
August 2025
ISBN 9780520424692
368 pages
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A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. More/less

Beasts of Burden

Animal and Disability Liberation
Nature / Environment
New Press
January 2017
ISBN 9781620971284
260 pages
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