Piepzna - Samarasinha Leah Lakshmi - The Future Is Disabled - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In The Future Is Disabled Leah Lakshmi Piepzna - Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if the majority of people will be disabled in the near future - and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom become crucial if we're going to create a future where surviving fascism climate change and pandemics and creating liberation are possible? Building on the work of her game - changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Piepzna - Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other - and the rest of the world - alive during Trump fascism and the Covid - 19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence care and mutual aid in real life disabled community building and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic this is a book of love letters to other disabled Qtbipoc (and those who care about us and the work of disability justice the care crisis and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care organizing disabled families and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future.
Title: The Future Is Disabled
Author(s): Piepzna - Samarasinha Leah Lakshmi
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Barcode: 9781551528915
Pages: 338 Pages
Publication Date: 10/4/2022
Category: Social Services & Welfare, Criminology