• Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Arts, Animal and Eco Justice.

  • Sep 21 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
  • Podcast

Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Arts, Animal and Eco Justice.

  • Summary

  • Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, activist, academic and mother. Sunaura is the Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment and the director of the Disabled Ecologies Lab at the University of California, Berkely. A skilled artist, her artworks have been exhibited at venues such as the CUE Art Foundation, a contemporary art space in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education, and research complex and they are a part of the Berkeley Art Museum collection. Sunaura is also the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, which received the American Book Award. Her current book is, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert and whilst it’s not a memoir, it is personal and political. She documents how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the USA. Sunaura is a game changer, a global thinker, she brings together what environmental and disability movements can learn from one another. Her books reveal how disability and ableism shape our understanding of nature and environmental crisis. She uncovers networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. Sunaura raises an important question we should all be asking in the name of shared justice, “What happened to us?” Not, what happened to you? This is someone with an incredible eye for detail, for whom painting is a love of seeing and whose political statements are also drawn from sharp observation, analysis and lived experience. Sunaura also has a critical understanding of curiosity cultivated in her alternative childhood education of being 'unschooled.'

    Sunaura Taylor

    Aquifer Losing Reach, Speculative Aquifers Series

    Pen and Watercolor on Paper, apx 11 x 8’’, 2017-2020

    Sunaura Taylor

    Animals With Arthrogryposis

    Oil on Canvas, 6’ x 9’ (72“ x 108”), 2009

    Author Photo © Julius Schlosberg

    Discover Sunaura Taylor: www.sunaurataylor.net/

    Series Audio Editor - Joey Quan.

    Series Music - Courtesy of Barry J. Gibb

    Closed Captions are added to all audio interviews in this series.

    Read only, text transcripts of every interview, news, reviews and your host, Paula Moore, are available here: www.canartsaveus.com

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