Sunaura Taylor

Dec 3, 2024 | news.berkeley.edu | Anne Brice |Sunaura Taylor

Campus & community, People, Research From an exploration on how to make sense in a world of nonsense to an examination of the American sitcom, the subjects of this year’s books are expansive — a reflection of our dynamic and diverse campus.

Nov 14, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sunaura Taylor |Leonard Wang |Emily Hagen |Arianne Grand-Gassaway

An excerpt from Disabled Ecologies. The multicolored poisonous waste disposed of by Hughes Aircraft Company was never just TCE, the most infamous ingredient. It was always a toxic soup: dozens of volatile organic compounds and heavy metals, contaminants with names like dichloroethylene, chromium, cadmium, and benzene. The chemicals were used in the early 1950s in the manufacture and cleaning of missiles that would travel thousands of miles overseas to maim and kill people during the Korean War.

Aug 22, 2024 | news.berkeley.edu | Sunaura Taylor

In the early 1950s, Hughes Aircraft Company and other defense and electronics industries began dumping toxic chemicals in the desert near Tucson’s southern border. For decades, these chemicals seeped into the aquifer that supplied drinking water to the city, creating a plume of contamination that eventually reached the taps of residents on Tucson’s south side.

Aug 15, 2024 | orionmagazine.org | Sunaura Taylor

IN 2017, I arrived in Tucson, Arizona, to research an aquifer that weapons manufacturers had polluted decades before. My own disability, and the illnesses and disabilities of thousands of others, were likely caused by this pollution. Yet my feelings toward this aquifer were never of fear or anger, but of solidarity. After all, the aquifer too was injured. Disability led me to want to get to know this aquifer—to understand more deeply what aquifers are and what they do. I had a lot to learn.

Aug 12, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura Taylor’s first book, Beasts of Burden (2017), was praised for its novel exploration of the links between disability studies and animal rights. Taylor, who uses a wheelchair and has limited arm mobility, sympathized with the plight of factory-farmed animals from an early age.