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

13 reviews

laurareads87's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am grateful that the author wrote this book and that I had the opportunity to read it.  Care Work is urgent, crucial, challenging, confronting, and so so needed.  I was deeply personally affected by some of the chapters, feeling like personal experiences and feelings I've had were named in ways that I appreciate and will carry with me.  I also feel like I've learned a lot, including about areas that I can do better, and will bring that learning into the work that I do -- I'm glad for those lessons, too.  Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racism, Medical trauma, Ableism, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Grief, Death, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Drug abuse, Incest, and Rape

kelseyland's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

An incredible collection of essays that put forth a radical, transformative vision of disability justice that centers the voices and needs of disabled people, and particularly folks who are queer, trans, Black, indigenous, and POC. The essays range from the theory-based (what does healing look like when it is done by and for disabled people, and what are its goals?) to the practical (hacks for going on a book tour as a disabled person). Even if you  have a baseline familiarity with disability justice, this book is likely to make you consider ideas, perspectives, and/or forms of oppression that you haven't before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Incest, Suicide, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

alsoapples's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Incest, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide