Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 06:00pm
Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Ave.
FREE
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
Pegasus Books Downtown is excited to welcome Bay Area artist, writer, and UC Berkeley scholar Sunaura Taylor on Monday, September 9th at 6:00pm to celebrate her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Joined in conversation by Yomi Young, Taylor will read from and discuss Disabled Ecologies (University of California Press, 2024)—a powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.
Books will be available for signing following reading and discussion. See you there!
More about the book:
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.
About the author:
Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer. She is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press, 2017), which received the 2018 American Book Award. Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets and her artworks have been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental justice, multispecies studies, and art practice. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book is Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert (University of California Press, 2024). She lives in the Bay Area with her daughter Leonora, husband David, and their two cats, Rosie and Pirate.
