Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura "Sunny" Taylor ( born March 22, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American artist and activist who is concerned primarily with the rights of people with disabilities.

Sunny came with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita to the world and uses a wheelchair. It is assumed that a trichloroethene exposure to industrial waste in the drinking water was triggering for their disease. Her family has been involved in her birth with other stakeholders for a political recognition of the special needs that accrued from various illnesses and deaths, as well as a responsibility of their respective companies. In 1995 they were awarded in a class action law.

Sunaura Taylor was educated at home. She then studied at Goddard College and the University of California, Berkeley, where she also taught in 2008. She is an active member of the Society for Disability Studies ( Society for the Study of disability).

Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States, approximately in the Smithsonian Institution. A text from her about yourself and the movement for the rights of people with disabilities was published in 2004 in Monthly Review and attracted nationwide interest. The self-portrait entitled Self Portrait with TCE, in which she used trichlorethylene as dyes, was the first image of what this newspaper reprinted in its existence since 1949.

Sunny is the sister of director Astra Taylor, inter alia, for a walk of Sunny with the philosopher Judith Butler staged in her film Examined Life, in which they philosophize together on queerness and body standards. She recalls in the interview that she was often told as a child by other children, they run " like a monkey ", and questioned the concept of humanity and the limits to non- human. Taylor is an abolitionist vegan.

Awards

• Price of the Joan Mitchell Foundation ( 2008)
• Grand Prize of the VSA arts Foundation (2004)