Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City. She has written for AlterNet, "American Quarterly," "BOMB," the "Monthly Review," "Qui Parle," and "Yes! Magazine." She has contributed to the books "Ecofeminism," "Defiant Daughters," "Occupy!," "Stay Solid," and "Infinite City." Taylor and Judith Butler's conversation is featured in the film "Examined Life" and the book of the same title, published by The New Press.
Praise for Beasts of Burden:
"From one of the foremost chroniclers of the twentieth century’s
other great dilemma, we now have this powerful set of reflections
on climate change—they set in useful and vivid context this great
crisis, and will be of use to all as we try to think our way
through it."
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
"I am not the same animal I was before I read this book."
Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip
"Finally, finally someone has come along to undo all the damage
Peter Singer has done. Beasts of Burden is a brave and brilliant
book."
Michael Bérubé, author of Life as We Know It and The Secret Life
of Stories
"Beasts of Burden is a game-changer."
Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals’
AgendaFeminist, Queer, Crip
"This is a profound and wondrous book. Sunaura Taylor challenges us
to rethink what is normal, what is natural, how to measure the
value of a lifeand how to imagine a world in which both human and
nonhuman animals, resplendent in their differences and
multiplicity, might flourish."
Claire Jean Kim, author of Dangerous Crossings
"A powerful blend of sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, personal
stories and sharp, passionate writing."
Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy and Ethics and Animals
Sunaura Taylor will shake up your categories, turn your world
inside-out, and tell you a lot of fascinating and important things
you didn’t know yet, about your own body and the bodies of others,
human and nonhuman, under an inhumane regime. A startling,
readable, sometimes hilarious inquiry into the human condition from
a whole new direction, this book might be very, very important, a
book to stand alongside The Body in Pain and The Human
Condition.”
Rebecca Solnit
Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both as an
intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals
and an invitation to reimagine ourselves. Her thoroughly original,
brilliant narrative transformed my imagination.”
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
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