Reviews

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

juicygreenmom's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

allisonplus's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

juliaem's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Can't say enough good things about this book. The subtitle is exactly correct. Beautiful, funny, and wise. I also really enjoyed the format and the disability justice history. Bonus: I got some recommendations of queer disabled sci fi that are now on my "to read" list (already started and enjoying The Marrow Thieves). 

ari_bryce's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

agentshellfish's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

amu_pdf's review against another edition

3.0

This was an informative read about disability and multiple intersections (such as race and sexuality) and how it affects the lives of the people who are disabled. It talks about the current status of who disabled people live, the activists fighting for change, and how they hope for a better future. It shines a light on the ways being disabled affects people that you might not think of if you are able-bodied. It also talks about the many different types of disabilities and how being disabled is not one size fit all.

jmeier's review against another edition

Lost interest in that topic temporarily

han_reardonsmith's review against another edition

5.0

Between reading-listening to Care Work and this vital new text, my own deepening of understanding of my place in Mad, neurodivergent, chronically ill, disabled queer-trans existence, community, and the importance of DJ to my life has significantly deepened. I will forever be grateful to Piepzna-Samarasinha for articulating many of the things crips in many places have struggled to put words to, with a powerful root of both joy and pain. Absolutely required reading-listening for everyone, and for new and old crips this is next level needed, it’s like a weighted blanket for the very soul.

libbygamberg's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

verovivaldi9's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Aw, man, this book 🫶🏻 I’m mostly a fiction reader however I’ve been making an effort to read more nonfiction. The author is a Sri Lankan autistic, chronically ill, queer femme and they talk about their experience becoming chronically disabled in their twenties, realizing they’re autistic in their forties, creating and being part of a mostly BIPOC disabled community. They write about the pandemic in such a way that truly hit me hard as a Covid cautious person. They discuss climate change, community building, friendship, sex, love. It’s an extremely heart wrenching, hopeful and eye opening read. The audiobook is narrated by the author it is beautifully done. There’s so much emotion and realness and cursing, it’s almost like having a conversation with a friend albeit a one sided one 😅 Five star read