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Disabled Ecologies: A Multispecies Reckoning
Disabled Ecologies: A Multispecies Reckoning
Wednesday, March 18, 2026: LNCO 2110, 3:30-5:00 PM
Please join us for a groundbreaking talk by Dr. Sunaura Taylor from her newest book, Disabled Ecologies, which tells the story of a Tucson aquifer forever altered by a Superfund site, and the contamination’s ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. Disabled Ecologies maps out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement. This event is free and open to the public. Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer. She is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and…
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Alternate Location: 2110. Contact Name: Paisley Rekdal. Contact Phone: paisley.rekdal@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
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Monday, May 25, 2026.