The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The authors name, “Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha” is at the top in small, light purple caps. Below this, the title of the book “Care Work”, in large, green caps. Between the words “Care Work”, is the subtitle “Dreaming Disability Justice”, in small blue caps. Below the title, artwork of what appears to be a half visible human body climbing through brambles and roots. The arm and leg are visible. Both are orange. All of this is set against a dark cream background. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Suicide
• Abuse
• Child Sexual Assault

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Summary:

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

Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

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Notes:

This book was nominated for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction (2019).

Other works by this author include:

• Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Colour Dreaming Her Way Home
• The Future is Disabled

They have also contributed to Alice Wong’s “Disability Visability: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Centuries”.

There is an audiobook.

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Archivist Comments:

Had a lot of people submitting this author and her books.

I should warn that there are no trigger warnings on the Audible version, and I don’t believe they are in the physical version either, and these essays delve into some heavy stuff so I’ve done my best to find some.

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