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SUMMARY: Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert with Dr. Sunaura
  Taylor
DESCRIPTION: Co-presented by The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, 
 and Social Justice\, and Ecologies of Social Difference Social Justice\, UB
 C. Part of the GRSJ Noted Scholars Speaker Series. Disabled Ecologies: Less
 ons from a Wounded Desert an online book reading  with Dr. Sunaura Taylor W
 HEN & WHERE Wednesday\, February 14\, 12:00-1:00pm Zoom Please RSVP below i
 n advance […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">Co-presented 
 by<br />The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice\, 
 and Ecologies of Social Difference Social Justice\, UBC. Part of the GRSJ N
 oted Scholars Speaker Series.</p><h1 style="text-align: center\;"><span sty
 le="color: #993300\;">Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert</sp
 an></h1><h2 style="text-align: center\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><st
 rong>an online book reading </strong></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: cen
 ter\;"><span style="color: #800000\;">with</span></h2><h2 style="text-align
 : center\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><strong>Dr. Sunaura Taylor</stro
 ng></span></h2><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>WHEN & WHERE<b
 r /></strong>Wednesday\, February 14\, 12:00-1:00pm<strong><br /></strong>Z
 oom</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Please RSVP below in advance</p><p s
 tyle="text-align: center\;">[accordions collapsible=true active=false][acco
 rdion title="RSVP (Online)"][gravityform id="57" title="true" description="
 true"][/accordion][/accordions]</p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;
 "><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">J
 oin Dr. Sunaura Taylor for a reading and discussion of her upcoming book <e
 m>"</em></span><em><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Disabled Ecologies: Les
 sons from a Wounded Desert.</span><span style="font-weight: 400\;">”</span>
 </em></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">About the book: Deep below the
  ground in Tucson\, Arizona\, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detrit
 us of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this 
 contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American c
 ommunity living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long
 -ago injured landscape\, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the sit
 e's disabled ecology—the networks of disability\, both human and wild\, tha
 t are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.</span><
 /p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">What Taylor finds is a story of enta
 nglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of d
 ebilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries\, but they also map out alte
 rnative modes of connection\, solidarity\, and resistance—an environmentali
 sm of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disab
 ility means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement\, Disabled Eco
 logies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care\, treatment\, and
  assistance this age of disability requires. </span></p><hr /><p><span styl
 e="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>ABOUT Dr. Sunaura Taylor</strong></span></p>
 <p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><img class="alignleft wp-image-28264 si
 ze-medium" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/20
 24/01/sunaura-taylor-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" />Sunaura
  Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environmen
 t\, Berkeley. Taylor is a scholar and artist who works at the intersection 
 of disability studies\, environmental humanities\, animal studies\, environ
 mental justice\, feminist science studies\, and art practice. Her research 
 situates disability and ableism as central forces shaping human relationshi
 ps to the more-than-human world. Concerned with relationships between alter
 ed bodily capacity\, vulnerability\, and systems of exploitation across spe
 cies and ecological boundaries\,  her works crosses a range of disciplines\
 , mediums\, and audiences.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Ta
 ylor is author of</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> Beasts of Burd
 en: Animal and Disability Liberation</span></i><span style="font-weight: 40
 0\;"> (The New Press\, 2017)\, which received the 2018 American Book Award.
  Along with academic journals\, Taylor has written for a range of popular m
 edia outlets. Her artworks have been exhibited at venues such as the CUE Ar
 t Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the Berkeley Ar
 t Museum collection. Among other awards\, she has received a Joan Mitchell 
 Foundation MFA Grant\, two Wynn Newhouse Awards\, and an Animals and Cultur
 e Grant.</span></p><p><a href="https://esd.sites.olt.ubc.ca/" target="_blan
 k" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>This event is </strong></em><b><i>
 <strong>Co-presented by:</strong>  </i></b><i>Ecologies of Social Differenc
 e (ESD) Social Justice\, UBC</i></a></p>
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