How can we learn from and with ill and disabled humans, animals, and ecosystems about how to live with disability, while also working to dismantle the systems of exploitation and oppression that so often cause it?

treating environmental harm is a long-term, enduring, and at times incurable task.

we were all trying to believe that nothing this important is beyond our control.

“More than three-quarters of the mass-produced chemicals in the United States have never been tested for their impacts on fetuses or children. That means they are being released in the environment with no consideration for how they will impact those who weigh, say, twenty pounds, like your average one-year-old girl, let alone a half-pound, like a

“What happened to you?,” if asked at all, seems to be presented solely to be followed by “Can you prove it?”

What happens if we take seriously the idea of ecosystem health and impairment but do not focus on the diagnostics of an environmental policy steeped in seeing nature as a resource with intended uses?

Klein details how labor’s multifaceted visions of health security were thwarted by the emergence of such incentives as employee benefits programs, including employer-based health insurance, a much more limited effort.

Environmental historian Traci Brynne Voyles describes the entanglement between sacrificial bodies and sacrificial landscapes as “wastelanding”—the processes via which white colonial wealth is dependent on constructing some landscapes and peoples as pollutable, with all the injuries, illnesses, and deaths that follow.

if we open space for critical disability perspectives in these conversations, what could disability movements teach us about how to care for this vast web of disabled kin? About how to fight back against the economic forces that benefit from disablement?