Sunaura Taylor

2017

In her book Beasts of Burden, Animal and Disability Liberation, Sunaura Taylor thinks deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the non-disabled, and what it means to break down these divisions. Taylor suggests that issues of disability and animal justice, which are habitually seen as separated, are in reality deeply entangled, opening up new possibilities of solidarity across species and ability. In the featured vinyl wall text, which runs across several gallery spaces, Taylor has selected fragments from one chapter of the book on language, which recounts the fate of Booee, a chimpanzee who was taught American Sign Language and then sold into laboratory research.

Sunaura Taylor