Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/sunaura-taylor Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	I was following the sort of trails of disability that were left from the pollution or that
0:06.3	emerged from the pollution. The ways in which health and illness were utilized by city officials
0:11.7	often to cover up or to justify racist attitudes towards the community as a sort of alibi,
0:18.8	right, that the community was just predisposed to illness,
0:23.4	these kinds of ways in which racism and disabilities are utilized, merged together to form a kind of alibi. Welcome to the Deaf Panel.
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1:24.6	I'm really excited today to be joined by my guest, Sonara Taylor. Sanara is a writer,
1:30.2	artist, and crit parent. She is the author of the 2017 book, Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability
1:35.9	Liberation, and is an assistant professor of environmental science, policy, and management at the
1:41.6	University of California Berkeley. And today, we're talking about her brand new book, Disabled Ecologies, Lessons from a Wounded Desert,
1:49.8	which has just been released by the University of California Press.
1:53.2	Sonara, welcome to the death panel.
1:55.2	It is so nice to finally have you on the show.
1:57.4	Oh, thank you so much, Beatrice.
1:59.1	I'm just really excited to be here, so excited to have an
2:02.2	opportunity to talk about this new book and to talk with you all. This is so exciting for me.
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