The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer handicapped femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ancestry. She is the co-editor of The Revolution Begins at Home and the author of the poetry collections Love Cake and Consensual Genocide.

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ISBN 13 9781551528915
ISBN 10 1551528916
Titel The Future is Disabled
Autor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Arsenal Pulp Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2022-12-15
Seitenanzahl 338
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