BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5@sunaurataylor.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T150000 DTSTAMP:20240903T154217Z URL:https://sunaurataylor.net/events/592/ SUMMARY:Sunaura Taylor presents "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" in conversation with Heather Hax DESCRIPTION:Baltimore Book Festival 2024: Red Emma's stage\nA powerful anal ysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining fea tures of environmental devastation and resistance.\n\n\n\nDeep below the g round in Tucson\, Arizona\, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritu s of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of thi s contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican America n community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape\, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow th e site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability\, both human and wi ld\, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered .\n\nWhat Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond t he Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-e nding injuries\, but they also map out alternative modes of connection\, s olidarity\, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An origin al and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of in creasing multispecies disablement\, _Disabled Ecologies _is a powerful c all to reflect on the kinds of care\, treatment\, and assistance this age of disability requires.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunaura Taylor is Assistant Professo r of Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and author of the American Book Award–winning B easts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.\n\nHeather Hax is a lec turer at Towson University. Her areas of expertise include social and envi ronmental movements\, sociology\, political economy\, globalization\, race \, class\, and gender.\n\nRSVP here!\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sunaurataylor.net/wp-content/uploads/202 4/08/Sunaura-Taylor-Baltimore-Book-Festival-Featured-Image.png LOCATION:Red Emma's\, 3128 Greenmount Ave\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 21218\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3128 Greenmount Ave\, Balti more\, Maryland\, 21218\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Red Emm a's:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR