Teaser - Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156680243 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. Runtime 1:31:27 Find Sunaura's book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9780520424692 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523

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0:00.0	To hear the full episode, become a patron at patrian.com slash netpanel pod.
0:07.3	I was following the sort of trails of disability that were left from the pollution or that
0:12.9	emerged from the pollution. The ways in which health and illness were utilized by city officials
0:18.3	often to cover up or to justify racist attitudes towards the community
0:23.9	as a sort of alibi, right, that the community was just predisposed to illness,
0:30.1	these kinds of ways in which racism and disabilities are utilized, merged together to form a kind
0:35.8	of alibi.
1:07.8	Thank you. are utilized, merged together to form a kind of alibi. Bye. Welcome to the Deaf panel. Patrons, thank you so much for supporting the show. We couldn't do any of this without you. To support the show and get access to the entire weekly bonus episode
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1:31.3	I'm really excited today to be joined by my guest, Sonara Taylor.
1:35.5	Sonara is a writer, artist, and crit parent.
1:38.4	She is the author of the 2017 book, Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability Liberation,
1:43.3	and is an assistant professor of
1:45.5	environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California Berkeley.
1:50.3	And today, we're talking about her brand new book, Disabled Ecologies, Lessons from a Wounded
1:55.6	Desert, which has just been released by the University of California Press.
1:59.9	Sonara, welcome to the death panel. It is so nice to finally have you on the show. Oh, thank you so much, Beatrice. I'm just really excited to be here, so excited to have an opportunity to talk about this new book and to talk with you all. This is so exciting for me. Likewise. And this book is fantastic. Can I just say, first of all, congratulations. It's so
2:18.8	nice to see a project that has clearly been in the works for so long together. It's a really
2:24.4	fantastic read. Thank you so much. And it really has been a very long project in the making. It's
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