Taylor Brorby, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama

Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. Brorby’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, LitHub, Orion, and is widely anthologized.

In this talk, Taylor Brorby will explore the connections between extractive economies, targeting the LGBTQ+ community through book banning and censorship, and the role of storytelling to transform the systems in which we live as well as ourselves. He has received fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He serves on the editorial boards of Hub City Press, Terrain.org, and is a contributing editor at North American Review.

Event link: https://nelson.wisc.edu/events/boys-and-oil-growing-up-gay-in-a-fractured-land/ 

Event Partners: 

UW–Madison: 

• Gender and Sexuality Campus Center 
• Gender and Women’s Studies
• Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
• Department of Geography
• Department of Geoscience
• Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
• Nelson Institute Center for Culture History and Environment
• Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey