Tucson Festival of Books

(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.


Panelists
Mariah Blake

Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University....

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Sunaura Taylor

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....

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Sharon Udasin

Sharon Udasin is an environment reporter, based in Boulder, Colorado, who has been delving into water contamination and conservation issues for fifteen years. Her newest book is "Poisoning the Well." She was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has reported for The Hill, The Jerusalem Post, and The New York Jewish Week....

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Books:
Poisoning the Well
How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America
Sharon Udasin
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Island Press
April 2025
ISBN 9781642833324
264 pages
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Disabled Ecologies
Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Sunaura Taylor
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

They Poisoned the World
Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Mariah Blake
Science / Medicine / Technology
Random House
May 2025
ISBN 9781524760090
320 pages
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