Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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.

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. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

©2018 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (P)2019 Tantor

Critical reading for EVERYONE.

This is beautiful, this is personal, this is exactly the perspective the world needs to be listening to and elevating right now. Leah does the most amazing job of making the extremely difficult work of telling community story through personal perspective (without being personally narrowed) look easy and flawless. Leah, you gave words to things I hadn't even fully faced in myself yet. Thank you. This work is priceless, and hopefully you are well compensated for it.

Inspired

The author gives a performance that is raw and inspiring to other sick and disabled people.

Everyone needs to listen to this book

I feel so thankful to have been recommended this as I am sorting through my own relationship with disability and my body in the context of being in my 20s and with what is going on around me. I brought this audio with me, like a friend, over the last month and I will continue to think of the words, wisdom, imagining, shared here.🫂

Excellent!

This wonderful book challenged me in all the best ways. The writing is warm compassionate brave thoughtful and so so informative. I wish every person would read this.

accessible book on disability justice

as a disabled person for over a decade, i have been aware that it has taken me nearly as long to create the community i need and deserve. if this book had found me years earlier, the whispered "i am allowed to take up space. i deserve to be here. i am not alone." that i heard in my head from the beginning for my chronic illnesses, would have always been too loud to disregard. i am so grateful i have found it now.
this book has given words to experiences i thought were unique and unexplainable. as a femme presenting nonbinary autistic creative with multiple illnesses, leah spoke to me from all directions. this book has expanded how i create and maintain boundaries with neurotypical and ablebodied ppl as well as those within my loving disabled community. i am grateful to have found it and i look forward to reading their other book, the future is disabled.