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Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

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Care Work

Written by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.

Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

©2018 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (P)2019 Tantor
Gender Studies Health & Wellness LGBTQ2S+ Personal Development Political Science Public Policy Social Policy Social Sciences Queer Social Justice
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Let’s just get to the root of the issue

If you read one book this year, make it this book. Chef’s kiss and thank you for your femme emotional labour.

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The history I knowledge the whole world needs!

Piepzna-Samarasinha shows Incredible leadership, having done so much work gathering full disability perspectives. She shows us why the QTBIPOC marginalized experience needs to lead with the development of crip knowledge, crip history and crip wealth. I can’t recommend this book enough. For abled and disabled people, marginalized or not.

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Life changing

I think this should be required reading for all humans. Leah does an incredible job capturing and sharing queer crip stories of resilience, joy, and pain. She provides an approachable insight into the structures that marginalize Mad and Disabled people, as well as telling incredibly real and deeply heart warming stories of community resiliency, creativity, community, and care. This book made me laugh, cry, and think deeply.

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Connect with caring

This book is so important. As an occupational therapist, I recommend for anyone in caring "roles" in society.

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