On this edition of Your Call, writer, artist, and activist Sunaura Taylor discusses her new book, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
Sunaura Taylor was six when she first learned that animals are mistreated. When she was 21, she realized the same thing about disabled people. The book prompts us to think deeply about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled, and what it might mean to break down those divisions. How can we change the way we think about animals and disability?
Guest:
Sunaura Taylor, artist, activist, and author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Web Resources:
The New Yorker: Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected?
The Baffler: After the Ugly Laws
Mother Jones: Trump’s USDA Wants to Make Pork Processing Faster—And More Dangerous
