Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

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

56 reviews

howard's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Ableism

pattytims's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Police brutality, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder

novella42's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Incest, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, and Police brutality

historicalmaterialgirl's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Violence

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mesposito827's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

scarroll178's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

Very insightful. I learned so much about Disability Justice. The writing style wasn’t my jam; it was repetitive, but still a very good book. If you’re interested in the intersections between disability, race, and trauma, this book is for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Sexual assault

honeyvoiced's review

challenging informative

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, and Incest

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Panic attacks/disorders

bonnie's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

tlaynejones's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is the best book I’ve read this year. The writing is deeply compassionate thoughtful and challenging. I am grateful to have the opportunity to question and expand many of my long held understandings of the world and of myself. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha shared her experiences, vulnerability, strengths, and desires with a warm generous relatability. I wish everyone would read this. Highly recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship