The Future Is Disabled

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?

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 concerned about 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.

©2022 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (P)2022 Tantor

Amazing!!!

I learned so much about myself as a disabled qtbipoc, and the disability justice movement

The Future is Disabled

A wonderful book that should be required reading for all. I am changed and inpired and strengthened by it. Wonderful narration by the author.

Excellent analysis and messages

This book helped clarify a lot of things I've been thinking and feeling without being able to articulate. It also taught me a ton of very valuable things about what life is and could be like for me and my loved ones.

Wonderful

Such a great, informative, grounding and inspiring book. I highly recommend; we could all benefit from reading Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s work.

Disability justice handbook

I’m hoping all the folks who are new to ME/CFS or long COVID who I have suggested this book to are inspired by it. I was!