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 |
| Title | The Future is Disabled |
| Author | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Year published | 2022-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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