The Rooted Reads Book Club is a partnership between Bird in Hand and the Ecological Design Collective, a Baltimore based community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration.

Join us at 6pm on the second Thursday each month at Bird in Hand to talk about some visionary new books, in conversations moderated by curators of the EDC.

Thursday, October 8th, 6-7pm
Featured Book: Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert by Sunaura Taylor
Led by Carissa Aoki

Carissa Aoki is the Director of the Ecosystems, Sustainability, and Justice major at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she teaches ecology and environmental justice.

About the book:

“Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site’s disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.

What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires.”

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