Sunaura Taylor
@sunaura.bsky.social
Artist, writer, scholar of disability, animal studies, and environmental justice. Author of Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert and Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
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Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.
Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
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Seeing some more centrist folks imply that it was solely the focus on affordability that won the race for Mamdani. Absolutely bread and butter issues are key. But it was also his moral clarity.
Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.
Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.
June 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Seeing some more centrist folks imply that it was solely the focus on affordability that won the race for Mamdani. Absolutely bread and butter issues are key. But it was also his moral clarity.
Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.
Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.
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Trump’s attacks on the University of California are escalating.
Three reasons to defend public higher ed:
1/ We’re centers of free speech
2/ We help poor and working class students build better lives
3/ We drive scientific innovations that can benefit everyone
dailybruin.com/2025/04/04/t...
Three reasons to defend public higher ed:
1/ We’re centers of free speech
2/ We help poor and working class students build better lives
3/ We drive scientific innovations that can benefit everyone
dailybruin.com/2025/04/04/t...
Trump administration revokes visas of multiple UCLA, UC students - Daily Bruin
This post was updated April 5 at 10:20 a.m. The United States government has revoked the visas of multiple students across the UC, including at UCLA.
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April 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump’s attacks on the University of California are escalating.
Three reasons to defend public higher ed:
1/ We’re centers of free speech
2/ We help poor and working class students build better lives
3/ We drive scientific innovations that can benefit everyone
dailybruin.com/2025/04/04/t...
Three reasons to defend public higher ed:
1/ We’re centers of free speech
2/ We help poor and working class students build better lives
3/ We drive scientific innovations that can benefit everyone
dailybruin.com/2025/04/04/t...
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This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research!
So proud of my union!
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So proud of my union!
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March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research!
So proud of my union!
protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
So proud of my union!
protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
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🚨All out to the Department of Education Friday!🚨
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
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Study In to Defend Our Schools · Sunrise Movement
Trump is issuing an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. **This is cruel and illegal** – a direct attack on public schools, students, and our communities.
On Friday March 21st, we'...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🚨All out to the Department of Education Friday!🚨
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...
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These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.
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It would be extremely helpful if you could encourage people to join the Feb 19 Save Our Services day of action by clicking on go.savepublicservices.com - they can go there to get connected to an action
Save Our Services Day of Action
On Wednesday, Feb 19th, federal workers and everyday Americans are coming together to say NO to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose mass layoffs. Our demands: • NO cuts to vital serv...
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February 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It would be extremely helpful if you could encourage people to join the Feb 19 Save Our Services day of action by clicking on go.savepublicservices.com - they can go there to get connected to an action
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Counting down - 8PM ET tonight.
Are you looking for a way to plug into the fight against the corporate takeover of the federal government? Join this Feb 19 Day of Action.
HANDS OFF OUR HEALTHCARE, OUR RESEARCH, OUR JOBS
There's a strategy call TONIGHT. All concerned people welcome.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
HANDS OFF OUR HEALTHCARE, OUR RESEARCH, OUR JOBS
There's a strategy call TONIGHT. All concerned people welcome.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Counting down - 8PM ET tonight.
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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
It's about time. Should have happened decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/c...
E.P.A. Bans Perc and T.C.E., Two Chemicals Used In Dry Cleaning
The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2024 at 12:19 AM
It's about time. Should have happened decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/c...
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A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it.
It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.
It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:59 AM
A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it.
It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.
It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.
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Shout out to @oilchange.bsky.social and other groups working inside #COP29 who are exposing the connections between the Oil & Gas industry and the ongoing #GazaGenocide. 1/2 #ClimateSky www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-...
Exposed: The Oil and Gas Giants Profiting Most From Israel's Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams
"The complicity of international corporations and governments in fueling Israel's war machine represents the latest chapter in a long history of fossil fuel companies enabling genocide and mass atroci...
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November 15, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Shout out to @oilchange.bsky.social and other groups working inside #COP29 who are exposing the connections between the Oil & Gas industry and the ongoing #GazaGenocide. 1/2 #ClimateSky www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-...
These are terrifying times, but I feel motivated and inspired by Berkeley's unhoused community, who continue to refuse to be erased. I pass by some of these encampments everyday and I'm so grateful for the work they are doing.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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California’s unhoused people protest US supreme court order: ‘Not going to push us out of view’
In Berkeley, advocates, activists and unsheltered people are staging a last-ditch effort to claim safe public space
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November 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
These are terrifying times, but I feel motivated and inspired by Berkeley's unhoused community, who continue to refuse to be erased. I pass by some of these encampments everyday and I'm so grateful for the work they are doing.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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November 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Next in our series on Trump’s return, Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social), Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, and Anne Enright on tantrums, dominion, the Southern Strategy, fearmongering ads, New York’s haves and have-nots, and Candidate Shawn Fain.
The Return of Trump—V | Astra Taylor, Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, Anne Enright
Astra Taylor • Michael Greenberg • Coco Fusco • Verlyn Klinkenborg • Thomas Powers • Anne Enright Astra Taylor On election night, before Harris’s loss set
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November 13, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Next in our series on Trump’s return, Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social), Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, and Anne Enright on tantrums, dominion, the Southern Strategy, fearmongering ads, New York’s haves and have-nots, and Candidate Shawn Fain.
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Our new guide for resisting Trump's agenda is here.
Eight years ago, we wrote the Indivisible Guide to organizing locally to pressure Congress and block the Trump agenda. Now, we’re offering our best advice on how everyday people can organize to stop Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/guide
Eight years ago, we wrote the Indivisible Guide to organizing locally to pressure Congress and block the Trump agenda. Now, we’re offering our best advice on how everyday people can organize to stop Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/guide
November 14, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Our new guide for resisting Trump's agenda is here.
Eight years ago, we wrote the Indivisible Guide to organizing locally to pressure Congress and block the Trump agenda. Now, we’re offering our best advice on how everyday people can organize to stop Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/guide
Eight years ago, we wrote the Indivisible Guide to organizing locally to pressure Congress and block the Trump agenda. Now, we’re offering our best advice on how everyday people can organize to stop Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/guide
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In our latest, we speak with @sunaura.bsky.social about how industrial pollution produces disability not just in humans and animals, but in “injured landscapes,” and about her phenomenal new book “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert”
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Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
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August 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM
In our latest, we speak with @sunaura.bsky.social about how industrial pollution produces disability not just in humans and animals, but in “injured landscapes,” and about her phenomenal new book “Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert”
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In our latest, we speak with @sunaura.bsky.social about her phenomenal new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
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July 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM
In our latest, we speak with @sunaura.bsky.social about her phenomenal new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
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Very excited to be at one of my favorite bookstores soon with my amazing sister @astra.bsky.social.
Super excited to do a joint book event with my brilliant sister @sunaura.bsky.social to celebrate SOLIDARITY and DISABLED ECOLOGIES at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro.
June 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Very excited to be at one of my favorite bookstores soon with my amazing sister @astra.bsky.social.
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Robin D.G. Kelley absolutely brings it in this trenchant and powerful letter. Shafik will never respond, but it's important to have this indictment on the public record. She is the face of entire "elite" leadership class's spectacularly disastrous failure.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...
Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik - Boston Review
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
www.bostonreview.net
May 2, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Robin D.G. Kelley absolutely brings it in this trenchant and powerful letter. Shafik will never respond, but it's important to have this indictment on the public record. She is the face of entire "elite" leadership class's spectacularly disastrous failure.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...
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Here’s our full-throated defense of outside agitators.
The presence of community members and experienced activists in campus protests is nothing to be ashamed of.
We need to connect with and learn from others to build a better world.
jacobin.com/2024/05/outs...
The presence of community members and experienced activists in campus protests is nothing to be ashamed of.
We need to connect with and learn from others to build a better world.
jacobin.com/2024/05/outs...
We Need “Outside Agitators”
Pro-Palestine student protesters are being smeared as puppets of shadowy “outside agitators.” The presence of community members and experienced activists in the protests is nothing to be ashamed of: w...
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May 5, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Here’s our full-throated defense of outside agitators.
The presence of community members and experienced activists in campus protests is nothing to be ashamed of.
We need to connect with and learn from others to build a better world.
jacobin.com/2024/05/outs...
The presence of community members and experienced activists in campus protests is nothing to be ashamed of.
We need to connect with and learn from others to build a better world.
jacobin.com/2024/05/outs...
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What does it take to keep a movement going?
Organizers Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social) and Leah Hunt-Hendrix (@lhh.bsky.social) recently sat down with Aziz Rana to discuss their new book, SOLIDARITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF A WORLD-CHANGING IDEA.
Listen to their conversation here:
Organizers Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social) and Leah Hunt-Hendrix (@lhh.bsky.social) recently sat down with Aziz Rana to discuss their new book, SOLIDARITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF A WORLD-CHANGING IDEA.
Listen to their conversation here:
What Does It Take to Keep a Movement Going? - Boston Review
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.
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March 18, 2024 at 5:24 PM
What does it take to keep a movement going?
Organizers Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social) and Leah Hunt-Hendrix (@lhh.bsky.social) recently sat down with Aziz Rana to discuss their new book, SOLIDARITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF A WORLD-CHANGING IDEA.
Listen to their conversation here:
Organizers Astra Taylor (@astra.bsky.social) and Leah Hunt-Hendrix (@lhh.bsky.social) recently sat down with Aziz Rana to discuss their new book, SOLIDARITY: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF A WORLD-CHANGING IDEA.
Listen to their conversation here: