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Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Arsenal Pulp Press
01 December 2018
"In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with implications and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative ""collective access"" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labor, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of color.

Care Work is essentially a mapping ofaccess as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabledqueer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power andcommunity, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainablecommunities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate,Care Work is a crucial and necessarycall to arms for all.

'Page afterpage, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha documents the necessity, power, andsheer brilliance of disability justice. Be prepared for her words, stories, andpolitical thinking to shake up what you know about care and access, revolutionarydreaming, and present-day resilience.'

Eli Clare, author of BrilliantImperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile

'Leah knows that the world we deserve is a world shaped by thehonest, messy, skillful genius of disabled queer femmes of color. Reading thisbook allows you to live inside the gorgeous, uncomfortable, emergent,compassionate world that disabled femmes of color have been making all along.'

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of M Archive and Spill, co-editorof Revolutionary Mothering"
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Imprint:   Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781551527383
ISBN 10:   1551527383
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

Reviews for Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Page after page, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha documents the necessity, power, and sheer brilliance of disability justice. Be prepared for her words, stories, and political thinking to shake up what you know about care and access, revolutionary dreaming, and present-day resilience. &emdash;Eli Clare, author of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile As a Black disabled activist, cultural worker, and collector of art, books and music by people of color with disabilities for more than twenty years, I'm excited and thirsty for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work. As one of the original thinkers of Disability Justice, I'm overjoyed that artists and activists like Leah are writing books like this one that helps water the roots of Disability Justice. This book is coming from the bed, the streets and on stages that Leah has spoke, taught, performed and struggled on -- that's why it's so accessible and brings lived knowledge into our outdated, stiff institutions and activist movements. In this era of hyper capitalism, toxic hypermasculinity, and White supremacy, we desperately need Care Work. &emash;Leroy F Moore Jr., co-founder of Sins Invalid, co-founder of National Black Disability Coalition Leah knows that the world we deserve is a world shaped by the honest, messy, skillful genius of disabled queer femmes of color. Reading this book allows you to live inside the gorgeous, uncomfortable, emergent, compassionate world that disabled femmes of color have been making all along. Leah cares for us all with this work, but not in the apologetic, default, mommy mode you may be trained to expect. This care is the survivor-sourced, survivor-accountable, saltysweet truthtelling we need to (guess what?) SURVIVE. &emash;Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of M Archive and Spill, co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering Leah writes brilliantly about sick/disabled/mad/neurodivergent genius, collective care work, and all-too-familiar patterns of abuse and trauma that happen even/especially in radical spaces/marginalized people's communities. Care Work is a necessary intervention for those in queer/trans people-of-color spaces and white disability spaces alike, but more importantly, it's an offering of love to all of us living at multiple margins, between spaces of recognition and erasure, who desperately need what Leah has to say. This book is an invitation to dream and to build and to love, as slowly and imperfectly and unevenly as we need to. &emash;Lydia X.Z. Brown, author of All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism


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