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Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

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"In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour"--

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Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Pages
263

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First Sentence

""This book was written in the matrix of many sick and disabled femme of color care webs, in unceded and occupied Tkaronto/Dish With One Spoon territories, Ohlone territories (Oakland, California), and my current home in South Seattle on Duwamish territories governed by the Treaty of Point Elliot, as well as on a lot of planes, trains, and Megabuses.""

Table of Contents

Thanks and Acknowledgments
Preface: Writing (with) a Movement from Bed
Part I
1. Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access
2. Crip Emotional Intelligence
3. Making Space Accessible Is an Act of Love for out Communities
4. Toronto Crip City: A Not-So-Brief, Incomplete Personal History of Some Moments in Time, 1997-2015
5. Sick and Crazy Healer: A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement
6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E.T. Russian
Part II
7. Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams
8. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered by Disabled, Femme of Color, Working-Class/Poor Genius)
9. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come
10. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips
Part III
11. Fuck the "Triumph of the Human Spirit": On Writing <em>Dirty River</em> as a Queer, Disabled, and Femme-of-Color Memoir, and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives
12. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staying Alive Anyway
13. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity
14. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old
15. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter
Part IV
16. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation
17. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability
18. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Live Worth Living: Towards an Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood
19. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern
Further Reading and Resources

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references at the end of relevant chapters, includes Additional Reading and Resources (pages 257-263).

Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.4
Library of Congress
HV1568 .P54 2018, HV40, HV1568 .P54 2018eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
263 pages
Number of pages
263

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26976977M
ISBN 10
1551527383
ISBN 13
9781551527383
LCCN
2019403790
OCLC/WorldCat
1022794053, 1066114954, 1151701488

Work Description

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.

Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure -- in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour.

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