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

20 reviews

fruityfairy1312's review

challenging hopeful inspiring tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Racism, 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

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

wall0w's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading. Some may say it isn't a comfortable introduction to Disability Justice but I think it's vital to experience that discomfort. As with learning more in any area of justice, putting current comfort levels over learning leads to further injustice, and (especially with something as temporary as being abled) is an enormous to everyone, currently disabled or not

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

dragon_s_hoard's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual violence, Ableism, Suicide, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Addiction, Chronic illness, Colonisation, and Suicidal thoughts

lee_noel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

rionstorm's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

There's some really good ideas and concrete resources in this book. There's also some wonderful utopian imagining and goal setting, which feels motivational and helped expand my thinking. 

It reads like a mix of a memoir, academic theory, and a practical guide, which was interesting. I struggled to get through certain sections that felt a little repetitive, or were very hyper-specific to Canada and the USA. The intense, firm narration style makes sense and fits with such vital subject matter, but for me became a bit overwhelming after a while, in the same way listening to a lot of impassioned speeches one after the other can make the words being said start to bounce off you a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Excrement, Racism, Addiction, Ableism, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Medical content, Transphobia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Colonisation, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Deportation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Classism, Pedophilia, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Religious bigotry and Stalking

charlottejones952's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.0

I'll admit that I didn't complete the last 2 chapters but this was because of the content. This book is enlightening but tough so I don't know who I'd recommend to. Discussion of care work and ableism were fascinating but the trauma and surviverhood was too blunt and difficult to read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

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

jdieperink's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

It’s been a few days since I finished this and I still can’t quite wrap my hands around what I thought of it other than that I loved it. 

It’s a book that is simultaneously not for me and everything I need. It’s not an introductory text to disability justice but maybe it should be?

Since it is a collection of essays, it is occasionally repetitive but that doesn’t take away from the collection and how loving it is. 

I’ve seen a few other reviews that mention this but this book is not medical advice and I think the author does make sure to cover that, even when it’s more concrete tips. 

CW: abuse, suicide, ableism, misogyny, racism and probably more. Take care of yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Ableism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual violence and Vomit