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emotional funny informative reflective slow-paced

4.5


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emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.75

Opened my eyes to how I view myself and the people around me. Validated so many things for me.

Definitely made me realize how often disability gets overlooked in public spaces. 

Gave me hope that a care-centered community is possible.

Although a lot of the material talked about is sad (check TW), overall I felt the tone of the book was extremely hopeful, and I found the intimate look at care-centered communities beautiful and spiritual.

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5.0

This book, in no uncertain terms, changed my perspective on my life. It was beautiful, emotional and expansive. The essays touched on so many elements of my lived experience and gave me language and pride and compassion for them in ways I've struggled to have before.

I think it would be vaulable for anyone, but it would especially be valuable for folks who are disabled (or neurodivergent, Mad, crippled, whatever language you may use personally), queer and/or a trauma survivor.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0


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5.0

I feel like I was given a long, tight hug and told that things will be ok 🥹

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75


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emotional hopeful informative

5.0

Highly recommend the audiobook! Leah narrates their words with so much emotion and passion.

I found myself become very engaged during part 2 and that engagement continued to the end of the book. There are a few essays that deal specifically with suicide that were really triggering and hard to read but also beautiful and important and sad. This book is a great resource, as are most/all of the individual essays. 

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5.0


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novella42's review

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5.0

This book was too powerful for me to be able to give a coherent review right after finishing it. I will say that as a white disabled queer woman, I am immensely grateful to learn these stories, struggles, and wisdom from QTBIPOC disabled community leaders and visionaries. I think this is the most important book I have read in years.

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4.5

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has solidified herself as one of my favorite authors. She's so creative, realistic, hopeful and unpretentious in her writing. 

I genuinely loved and felt so inspired by the way she discussed mutual aid and care webs as ways to actually practice and try collective care and gift economies. DJ could give us so much insight into non-capitalistic economies and culture-building! And she's so honest about these practices too, like yeah sometimes it sucks or fails or lasts for a month or your needs contradict with each other. I also loved so so much, really truly needed, to read what she says about survivorship and being "not over it, not fixed." Honestly one of the best essays to ever exist sorry about it! She also gave me better insight into what disability justice looks irl, as well as commentary on love, access, aging, spirituality and misogyny that I really appreciated. 

I do diverge with some of what was written when we're talking about "femmephobia" and/or emotional labor. Call me old fashioned but girl that's just misogyny! And (emotionally) exhausting tasks/chores are not the same as labor the way communist writing has taught me to think of it. But I'm just annoying lmao this book was amazing go read it!!!!

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