Beasts of Burden
Sanaura Taylor
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Taylor draws on her lived experience as a disabled person and animal advocate to argue that the liberation of animals and the liberation of disabled people are deeply entangled. The same logic that frames animals as inferior — based on cognitive capacity, independence, and productivity — is used to devalue disabled human lives.
"To claim the animal in ourselves, the vulnerable, the dependent, might open the door to a more just and empathetic world."