Summary of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work

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#1 This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories, and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot.

#2 I want to thank everyone who has ever hired me to do workshops or lectures, and those who kept me marginally employed.

#3 I have also written about my experiences as a disabled, queer, femme-of-color writer in Fuck the ‘Triumph of the Human Spirit’: On Writing Dirty River as a Queer Disabled Femme-of-Color Memoir and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669393092

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories, and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot.

#2

I want to thank everyone who has ever hired me to do workshops or lectures, and those who kept me marginally employed.

#3

I have also written about my experiences as a disabled, queer, femme-of-color writer in Fuck the ‘Triumph of the Human Spirit’: On Writing Dirty River as a Queer Disabled Femme-of-Color Memoir and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

I moved to Oakland in 2007, and I started writing from bed. I was sick and disabled, and I was making culture. Writing from bed is a disabled way of being an activist and cultural worker. It is often ignored by the mainstream, but its lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair at age ninety-eight.

#2

Disability justice gave birth to a movement, and I was a part of it as a cultural worker. I wrote pieces about cross-disability access that were used to help create the first Creating Collective Access network, an experiment in access made by and for QTBIPOC disabled people at the 2010 Allied Media Conference and US Social Forum.

#3

I, like many other QTBIPOC, thought of disability as something that you weren’t allowed to talk or write about in QTBIPOC culture. It was embarrassing or depressing to write about, or just something that most people wouldn’t be able to relate to as a subject.

#4

disability justice culture has