Care Work, Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha
Care Work, Leah Lakshmi PiepznaSamarasinha
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Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice

Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrator: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the nonfiction books Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home and Consensual Genocide, and the poetry books Bodymap and Love Cake. A lead artist with disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid and cofounder of queer and trans people of color performance troupe Mangos With Chili, she performs and teaches across North America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

One of the most mind-expanding and heart-opening books I have ever read. In Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha delves deep into the realities and politics of disability justice, a movement that centers sick and disabled queer and trans Black and brown people. She writes about so many import......more

Goodreads review by Corvus

I wanted to put my only negative critique at the beginning of my review for people who skim because it involves one small section of the book that contains dangerous advice. There is a section in which the author shares her tips for touring, many of which are safe and helpful. While she does remark......more

This is a powerful, brilliant book. I learned so much, and it made me real confront my own ableism and sit with that discomfort. I was blown away by this. My full review is at the Lesbrary.......more