Audio CD. 16.99. These stories are a much needed look at a section of the disabled community that has unique challenges and often don't get much of a voice. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samrasinha is the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards), Bodymap, Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in . At the same time, this disability activist community is all I have, and the care gone into this means a lot. Care Work is essentially 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 toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Ableism means that wewith our panic attacks, our trauma, our triggers, our nagging need for fat seating or wheelchair access, our crankiness at inaccessibility, again, our staying homeare seen as pains in the ass, not particularly cool or sexy or interesting. Registered in England & Wales No. This requires creativity, imagination, and collective dreaming. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. prob would have appreciated more when this came out 2 years ago. " Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a collection profoundly necessary at this moment the essays share a fundamental hypothesis: to achieve social justice, ableism must be destroyed. Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Like the title suggests, the book is a dream of a truly accessible and inclusive future for (everyone, but especially) sick and disabled Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (QTBIPOC). Disability justice is a framework that examines disability and ableism as it relates to other forms of oppression and identity. Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work, an impeccably written and edited collection, does just that. Review of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2019) by Leah Lakshmi Piezna-Samarasinha: "Dreaming Disability Futures: Dispatches from Queer Crip Femme of Color Bed-Caves". [electronic beeping] ELECTRONIC VOICE: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We are advertising this event, but we are not hosting it. 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. ALICE: Hey, Leah. Her writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans. 3099067 You'll know you're doing it because people will show up late, someone will vomit, someone will have a panic attack, and nothing will happen on time because the ramp is broken on the supposedly "accessible" building. Synopsis. 10 Principles of Disability Justice From our vantage point within Sins Invalid, where we incubate the framework and practice of disability justice, this emerging framework has ten principles, each offering opportunities for movement building: 1. Loree Erickson began her care collective because she was not given adequate funds to pay for a caregiver. Section III engages with the tragic reality of suicide in queer and marginalized communities and the politics of staying alive. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. Fantastic read. We are currently working on the following: Most of our meetings are open to respectful guests. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms. " Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is their fifth book of six, a collection of personal and political essays that examines disability justice and interdependence from a queer POC (person of colour) perspective. These are a few examples of the many joyful intersections of disability justice, care, and pleasure that I'm really fucking lucky to have in my life. That quote, "The only disability in life is a bad attitude," the reason that that's bullshit is because it's just not true, because of the social model of disability. Each person is full of history and life experience. Questions about how to accommodate those who have come to see a show consistently overshadow any discussion about how to ensure the stage itself is accessible to disabled performers. PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA, LEAH LAKSHMI. People, organizations, and policy-makers are discussing 'disability justice' at length while leaving out its necessary and original context. We were learning from them about their activism and their ability to come together, not only to discuss problems but to discuss solutions. I think the author also did a good job engaging with the critique of call-out/cancel culture; however I think in other parts of the book I felt as though she participated in calling out community institutions that are not able to make disability justice an immediate reality. You wanna know how you'll know if you're doing disability justice? 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. Significantly, Piepzna-Samarasinha reminds us that everyone needs and deserves care regardless of how likeable or networked we are (132). Year. Your one-stop shop for social justice study guides. At the time of its publication, Exile and Pride was considered a groundbreaking . And, let's be real, when you look at the entire white colonialist capitalist ableist patriarchy, you don't see a whole lot that looks that great in terms of love and romance for surviving queer Black and brown femmes. My full review is at. INTERDEPENDENCE We meet each others needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives. A study guide of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhas 2018 book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.. Ableism, again, insists on either the supercrip (able to keep up with able-bodied club spaces, meetings, and jobs with little or no access needs) or the pathetic cripple. Putting words to the overlap between ableism and misogyny was refreshing and cathartic to read. the essays share a fundamental hypothesis: to achieve social justice, ableism must be destroyed. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, organizer and author, including Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice**:** The pandemic "cripped the world" and because of this there was a mass consciousness . I just finished this book and still try to gather all my thoughts. A study guide of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinhas 2018 book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.. Erickson created a friend-made care collective as a survival strategy to give and receive necessary care, like being transported from her wheelchair to the bathroom or her bed. By far the most life-changing, mind-blowing, paradigm-shifting book Ive read in years-perhaps ever. This is a piece I relate to in a lot of ways but I find really hard to read whenever the gender stuff comes up, because Leah reassigned a gender binary of "femmes" and "masculine people" without room for those of us who are different. Image by Sarah Holst. Register a free Taylor & Francis Online account today to boost your research and gain these benefits: Disability and Mad Studies Reading Group, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health. Wind between your legs. Exactly what I wanted and so much more! Very good pace, pleasant and engaging voice. Access intimacy refers to a mode of relation between disabled people or between disabled and non-disabled people that can be born of concerted cultivation or instantly intimated and centrally concerns the feeling of someone genuinely understanding and anticipating another's access needs. And it was better than expected, in different ways. A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met., Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism., The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. through loving disabled people, i get to love myself. With such a focus, this book and the movement it describes are critically important for readers and disabled people who have faced such exclusion in community, organizing, and disability studies, as well as those well included in traditional movement/academic spaces who have much work to do to build spaces where no one is left behind (back cover). Historically, people who were disabled were killed under colonialism and capitalism, and this has led to lasting shame within some marginalized communities. It wasn't written for me. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a collection of visionary essays on vibrant organizing for Disability Justice that is gathering momentum across the unceded and occupied Indigenous territories in North America. Most of our meetings are open to respectful guests. Not alliances based on words and letters., Mainstream ideas of healing deeply believe in ableist ideas that youre either sick or well, fixed or broken, and that nobody would want to be in a disabled or sick or mad bodymind. Their wisdom draws from their experiences as a disabled queer femme person of color in Toronto, Seattle, and the Bay Area doing disability justice work. 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 . Oh, how I needed this gift of a book. Nonfiction essays about disability justice, by disabled queer femme's of color. I am grateful that the author wrote this book and that I had the opportunity to read it. Click to enlarge . Care work: Dreaming disability justice. Second to last essay - on survivorship and the false broken/healed dichotomy and how applying a disability justice framework blows that wide open - in particular hit hard! Ericksons care collective, which had the same result of many care webs, was a method that worked well for her but relied heavily on people who loved her, her friends. This book is a turning point for me, so challenging and affirming. Disability justice centers queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, Person/People of Color (QTBIPOC) and what they need, how they live, and how they organize justice for themselves. "This is where access intimacy gets real!" I yelled, and we all laughed. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love . COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance. Do more than:Stop self-destructing. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed., I said I loved her. This essay collection focuses on disability justice, which is a movement in disability rights that centers the lives and experiences of QTBIPOC (queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals. I want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people. COLLECTIVE LIBERATION No body or mind can be left behind only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world invalid., LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED We are led by those who most know these systems. Aurora Levins Morales. 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. %PDF-1.6 % Piepzna-Samarasinha is committed to figuring out together how we can remake performance cultures expectations and figure out our own disabled and chronically ill performance ideas that allow our bodyminds to thrive (p. 191). One of the leaders of the disability justice movement, . "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. She also spotlights care webs from the past that may not have been viewed as disabled care like the STAR House started by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice A study guide of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's 2018 book 'Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.' Summary, part 5 Healing Justice The best kind of healing is healing that (p. 97-98) Is affordable; Offers childcare; Needs no stairs; Doesn't misgender or disrespect disabilities or sex works; 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. We won't be grateful to be included; we will want to set the agenda. 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