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This interview between Sunaura Taylor and Sara E S Orning took place digitally, over the course of several months in the spring of 2020, during the time that the COVID-19 pandemic exploded around the world The exchanges have been edited into the four conversations presented here, dealing with human and nonhuman life, death and vulnerability, racial and environmental justice, and extinction Sunaura Taylor is the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, which won the 2018 American Book Award She is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley Her work, which argues for the need to bring animal and disability activism together, has been influential and pioneering in both the academy and broader public contexts Sara E S Orning is Postdoctoral Fellow for “BIODIAL: The Biopolitics of Disability, Illness, and Animality,” a three-year research project funded by the Research Council of Norway |