Care Work

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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. New Read [ Care Work ] By [ Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 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.Oh, how I needed this gift of a book and by the way, you do too, likely The words laid down by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha in Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice lifted my soul this week Reminded me of the amazing resilience and gifts that every single one of us brings to this work of being alive and trying to make a better world Centered me in the ways that we have to constantly be learning new ways forward that tear down old myths structures inequities It also deeply reminded me Oh, how I needed this gift of a book and by the way, you do too, likely The words laid down by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha in Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice lifted my soul this week Reminded me of the amazing resilience and gifts that every single one of us brings to this work of being alive and trying to make a better world Centered me in the ways that we have to constantly be learning new ways forward that tear down old myths structures inequities It also deeply reminded me that my struggling sick disabled body is valid That the ways that I need to move differently through the world now due to my chronic knee pain and my still healing lungs are right and deserve both care and accommodation That there is a different wisdom and a new world that I am growing when I care for my own needs and those around me and that this is true in both my personal and professional life This bo...I just finished this book and still try to gather all my thoughts In short Please, go read this insightful, brilliant, nuanced essay collection._Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha writes about the history of disability justice and fear of this movement being co opted , rethinking care and access, suicidal ideation, new models of survivorhood, call out culture , and making space for disabled chronical ill elders Centering the experiences and knowledge of disabled sick Mad QTPoC, especially I just finished this book and still try to gather all my thoughts In short Please, go read this insightful, brilliant, nuanced essay collection._Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha writes about the history of disability justice and fear of this movement being co opted , rethinking care and access, suicidal ideation, new models of survivorhood, call out culture , and making space for disabled chronical ill elders Centering the experiences and knowledge of disabled sick Mad QTPoC, es... 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 that these things will not work for every body, she does not explain further in ways that are critical for disabled and or sick people reading One thing she recommends is, for chronic pain, to take 8 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 that these things will not work for every body, she does not explain further in ways that are critical for disabled and or sick people reading One thing she recommends is, for chronic pain, to take 800mg of ibuprofen every 4 hours She doesn t say for how long or when to stop One day of doing this puts an adult well over the maximum safer prescription dose I say safer not safe because long term NSAID use can still...This is definitely my 1 top recommendation of the year and one of the best and most important books I ve EVER read I want everyone I ve ever met to read this book, I want everyone I m ever going to meet to read this book If...this book is fine, it does a lot of important work for so touchy a subject you may at points wish the whole affair wasprogrammatically organized and edited such a mild gripe implicates the paradox of access perhaps easier to bring to the publisher but not the easiest to read this paradox frames the long contemporary impasse that the loosely affiliated genealogical formation of queer crip political life has gotten very comfortably nested in, whether individual need emancipates the group this book is fine, it does a lot of important work for so touchy a subject you may at points wish the whole affair wasprogrammatically organized and edited such a mild gripe implicates the paradox of access perhaps easier to bring to the publisher but not the easiest to read this paradox frames the long contemporary impasse that the loosely affiliated genealogical formation of queer crip political life has gotten very comfortably nested in, whether individual need emancipates the group, how, pace martyred kanak political figure jean marie tjibaou, autonomy is interdependence, a tour de force of boundarywork you will wish that the collection of essays and talks in leah lakshmi piepzna samarasinha s care work began and was satisfied to stay with a femme queer crip of color intramural dialogue isn t this what we came for piepzna samarasinha considers this paradox as it only exacerbates consummates the fostering of...In the vein of her other work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha s Care Work is incredibly readable and accessible, full of beautifully written stories from her on the front lines experiences with Disability Justice, Mad movement, care collectives, and muchThis book is about pain and trauma and searching for better ways of being, moving, and relating in the world, and it s also full of hope and wild imagination Leah is careful to note that these are not her dreams alone, but she collabora In the vein of her other work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha s Care Work is incredibly readable and accessible, full of beautifully written stories from her on the front lines experiences with Disability Justice, Mad movement, care collectives, and muchThis book is about pain and trauma and searching for better ways of being, moving, and relating in the world, and it s also full of hop...I went into this book with zero expectations and came away so delighted I learned so much about disability justice Piepzna Samarsinha s writing is heartfelt, concise, and inviting I can t wait to dive into their worksEVERYONE PLZ READ THIS

Care Work
  • 06 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • 1551527383
  • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Care Work