Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781515947776

Reviews for Care Work

[Maggie Hepditch · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

4.5 stars. The author has penned an eye-opening and heartwarming collection of essays about existing as a disabled QTPOC. I myself am disabled and read this to learn more about how I can support my friends, especially as we age and this world becomes increasingly hostile to anyone different than the mainstream. Was it eye-opening to me? Not really. But I can see how this would be a great book for people beginning their community care journey. It did however remind me that I am nothing without my disabled comrades and I love them dearly. Also reminded me that my people (white non-binary queers) are idiots sometimes. 

[Alistair Heitmann · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love everything about this book and life! Look forward to more!

[Eve · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

omg this explains a lot! (like seriously, i've have disability accomodations all my life, but didn't quite put together how disabled i am... wow that's a lot)

[Annabelle · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book hold some really important messages we all benefit from listening to. Will probably listen to this again at a later point.

[Aine Kelly-Costello · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book for talking about care web and disability justice visions, in their glory and messiness, and really going into the weeds of the activism while staying hopeful.

[Dāa Guy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An amazing book that highlights the need for more text like it an increased attentiveness to our community members and how we organize. It’s a great place to start learning about accessibility issues and how models of caring for each other can look.

[Dia Sabrina · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

it is so precious and so transformative. a must read for anyone and everyone!

[Meloe Meloe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Thank you so much for your work; this book is healing. And so well written.

[Thea Rose · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Incredible, confronting, challenging, essential. Everyone should read this collection of essays. Narration of audio book was excellent.

[Florence Otaigbe-Nkwocha · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is SUCH a good book. It offers so many different perspectives that really push you to rethink how our society operates with regard to disability. It was amazing to hear first hand experiences from the author about her involvement with disability Justice movement and even just stories from her life. I think this is a must read, and as a society, we need to move away from such ableist norms. They are so embedded in our society, and it makes disabled folks’ lives extremely difficult. Ableism is the issue. Not the person with the disability. Though I partially read this through ebook and audiobook, I am definitely going to get a copy for myself!

[Alejandra Cámara · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A must read for crip queer history.
It feels like to has to be p part of every disability studies curriculum.