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The future is disabled : prophecies, love notes, and mourning songs / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

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"An essay collection that expands on Leah's bestselling book Care Work, centering and uplifting disability justice and care in the pandemic era. In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled--and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of her game-changing book, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other--and the rest of the world--alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honour songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781551528915
  • ISBN: 1551528916
  • Physical Description: 333 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]

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Subject: People with disabilities.
People with disabilities > Social conditions > Forecasting.
People with disabilities > Civil rights.
Social justice.
Social integration.
Social movements.
Social movements.
Genre: Essays.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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