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

4 reviews

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

tinyplanet's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Ableism, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, Incest, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Cursing, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Fatphobia, and Sexual harassment

porcupinetree's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, Ableism, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Racism, Drug use, and Grief

achingallover's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

Rating may be revised later.
Part VI was really good and gave me a lot to think about, but other parts were repetitive, reductive, bad advice (eg regarding medication) or, just, lots of acronyms that weren't explained (the irony that it discusses making writing less academic to be accessible is not lost on me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit