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

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)

★★★★★

A collection of essays about disability justice—a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people—by a queer, disabled femme of color and abuse survivor.

Well, this woke me the fuck up. I think the easiest way for me to talk about this book is to relay a conversation that I had with my friend L., and the thoughts that were going through my head—informed by my reading—as we chatted.