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Beasts of Burden: Disability Studies and Animal Rights

Beasts of Burden: Disability Studies and Animal Rights Beasts of Burden Disability Studies and Animal Rights sunaura taylor Painting the Animals For twenty-two years I have been concerned with the exploitation of animals. For twenty-eight (my whole life), I have been disabled. For the past few years I have been painting images of animals in factory farms. The following essay was born from this visual artistic practice.1 My paintings not only led me to research; they forced me to see and focus on animal oppression for hours every day in a way I never had before. Through this focus I became increasingly aware of the interconnections between the oppression of animals and the oppression of disabled people. This connection did not lie, as many people suggested, in my being confined to my disabled body, like an animal in a cage. Far from this, the connection I found centered on an oppressive value system that declares some bodies normal, some bodies broken, and some bodies food. The Freak and the Patient In my life I have been compared to many animals. I have been told I walk like a monkey, eat like a dog, have hands like a lobster, and generally resemble a chicken or penguin. These http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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Beasts of Burden Disability Studies and Animal Rights sunaura taylor Painting the Animals For twenty-two years I have been concerned with the exploitation of animals. For twenty-eight (my whole life), I have been disabled. For the past few years I have been painting images of animals in factory farms. The following essay was born from this visual artistic practice.1 My paintings not only led me to research; they forced me to see and focus on animal oppression for hours every day in a way I never had before. Through this focus I became increasingly aware of the interconnections between the oppression of animals and the oppression of disabled people. This connection did not lie, as many people suggested, in my being confined to my disabled body, like an animal in a cage. Far from this, the connection I found centered on an oppressive value system that declares some bodies normal, some bodies broken, and some bodies food. The Freak and the Patient In my life I have been compared to many animals. I have been told I walk like a monkey, eat like a dog, have hands like a lobster, and generally resemble a chicken or penguin. These

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social SciencesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: May 6, 2011

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