Reviews

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

krows_ink's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective

5.0

This book is incredibly written and truly authentic. It’s a pleasure and privilege to hear anything written by someone read in their own voice — this book is a wonderful example of that.

I loved how this book shifts and meanders. How it is both essay, personal stories, poems, love letters, and conversations. To me, this format emphasized the beauty of interdependence and pushed against the idea of what a book must look like.

I digested this book in spurts over the course of several months if I’m honest. I never tuned out once. The concepts discussed aren’t unfamiliar to me, but how they are framed and phrased, reminded me of the work still needed to be done and the true meaning of the work.

aklikethegun's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

chewbaccachowder's review

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

georgialilyw's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book was challenging in all the right ways. As I read more into the DJ movement, it is great to find a book that is not targeted at able-bodied people but instead also serves as a guide and history of the community. Many things to think about.

sophafie's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

puttingwingsonwords's review

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Racism, and Ableism

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, Suicide, and Incest

themshelves's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

enbylievable's review against another edition

5.0

Disability justice is so important -- everybody benefits from access. There are no able-bodied people, only the not-yet-disabled. For those of us who won't experience traumatic injury, illness, or accident that will cause us to lose some of our abilities, we will eventually grow old and lose them anyways. We need to imagine and create an accessible world for each other as a fundamental demonstration of our care. Please please please read this -- especially if you are not-yet-disabled.

agapitehya's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

tigerkul's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0