Sunaura Taylor, an author and professor from UC Berkeley, will discuss her latest book, “Disabled Ecologies, Lessons from a Wounded Desert,” when the Disablity Lecture Series hosts its next event at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 3, on Zoom.
The talk is free and open to the public; register online to receive the Zoom link.
Taylor is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. She is a scholar and artist who works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental humanities, animal studies, environmental justice, feminist science studies, and art practice, her faculty webpage states.
In “Disabled Ecologies,” Taylor wrote was the book publisher’s website describes as a “powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.” In addition to her latest work, Taylor also is the author of “Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability Liberation.”
The Disability Studies Lecture Series provides access to world-class scholarship and expertise in the vital multi-disciplinary field of critical disability studies. The aim of the series is to increase disability literacy in our communities and to enrich our own scholarship, creativity, and activism by engaging with new ideas in disability theory, history, culture, and the arts.
For more information, visit the Disability Studies Lecture Series webpage.