How to Stay: Disability Justice Lessons for Dust Bowl City

If the Great Salt Lake dries up, toxic dust from the exposed lakebed will reach the lungs of millions of Utahns. This would be a public health disaster. People with disabilities will be disproportionately impacted by this crisis, but they also have knowledge, experience and solutions to help us navigate our uncertain future. In this episode, we talk with Flor Isabel, a mom and activist whose family has struggled with asthma from Utah's already poor air quality. We also speak with Nat Slater, an artist and disability justice organizer who shares lessons from the disability justice movement on community care and adaptation.

Episode transcripts can be found on our website: https://www.lakefacing.org/blog

Learn more:

Sins Invalid, disability justice organization: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/

Nat Slater is quoted in this story in Prism on Utah’s discrimination against disabled people: https://prismreports.org/2024/02/12/why-utah-discrimination-disabled-people-matters/

A story in SLUG Magazine about the Embodied Ecologies Project curated by Nat Slater: https://www.slugmag.com/arts/art/embodied-ecologies-where-disability-meets-the-natural-world/

Article in the Salt Lake Tribune about Flor Isabel's struggle with asthma during bad air days: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/01/23/reaching-air-there-are-solutions/