Beasts of Burden
Book description
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new social critic
How much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with…
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As an artist, disabled activist, and advocate with arthrogryposis, Sunaura Taylor has experienced firsthand our cultural and economic biases that surround the disability community. She explains how just as we have placed human animals into categories of being “fit” or “unfit,” “valuable” or “unworthy,” we have applied the same logic to nonhuman animals by objectifying them and trying to find endless reasons to explain why we are so different. In the book, Taylor introduces her service dog, Bailey and describes his aging where he becomes “inefficient” and “dependent” on Taylor due to his disability.
From Lisa's list on animals and humans who use and misuse them.
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