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A review by rafdee13
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
I want to preface this by saying that im glad this book exists. I think these essays have a lot to offer and that Piepzna Samarasinha is a very cool person.
That being said: this book feels very rough. It could've benefited from better editing, which I think was taken into consideration with "The Future is Diasabled" as it feels more complete, with better writing.
Some of my complaints are petty and closer to stylistic prefance, I'm aware of that. Some I'm a little more concerned about.
First: petty. I was listening, so when I heard "cutie bipoc" every sentence I was a little confused. Later I looked it up and saw it was actuall "QTBIPOC". As a "QTBIPOC" myself I suppose, I'm not entirely sure why this term is really used. (Latinx is also not a term I'm fond of, but that's a lot of discourse)
It also got very distracting to her "black and brown" every sentence as well. Trust me i am glad we ate talking about disability intersections with race as someone who is neurodiverse and brown, but you can say it once and construct your writing to not need to repeat the phrase every so often.
I often did not know what phrases or references meant in relation to disability justice or spaces. As I am listening at work or driving, I cannot stop to look them up. "The future is disabled" does a much better job explaining acronyms or phrases before continuing (WITH OUTLOUD CITATIONS!!). This might just be me not being the target audience though, as I am abled.
For more serious stuff: I don't like the propositioning of femmes as being the only people to do care work. I think they and women are definitely doing much of it, but a lot of the language of this book was extremely dismissive to care contributions transmascs or men of color have made to their communities.
Another thing it that is is very north American centric. Which yeah, that's where the author lives. But the disability experience of someone living in the first world is going to be difference then someone living in the third world.
That being said: this book feels very rough. It could've benefited from better editing, which I think was taken into consideration with "The Future is Diasabled" as it feels more complete, with better writing.
Some of my complaints are petty and closer to stylistic prefance, I'm aware of that. Some I'm a little more concerned about.
First: petty. I was listening, so when I heard "cutie bipoc" every sentence I was a little confused. Later I looked it up and saw it was actuall "QTBIPOC". As a "QTBIPOC" myself I suppose, I'm not entirely sure why this term is really used. (Latinx is also not a term I'm fond of, but that's a lot of discourse)
It also got very distracting to her "black and brown" every sentence as well. Trust me i am glad we ate talking about disability intersections with race as someone who is neurodiverse and brown, but you can say it once and construct your writing to not need to repeat the phrase every so often.
I often did not know what phrases or references meant in relation to disability justice or spaces. As I am listening at work or driving, I cannot stop to look them up. "The future is disabled" does a much better job explaining acronyms or phrases before continuing (WITH OUTLOUD CITATIONS!!). This might just be me not being the target audience though, as I am abled.
For more serious stuff: I don't like the propositioning of femmes as being the only people to do care work. I think they and women are definitely doing much of it, but a lot of the language of this book was extremely dismissive to care contributions transmascs or men of color have made to their communities.
Another thing it that is is very north American centric. Which yeah, that's where the author lives. But the disability experience of someone living in the first world is going to be difference then someone living in the third world.