Care Work
Subtitle: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Vancouver, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781551527383
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: People with disabilities; Social justice; Legal status, laws; Discrimination against people with disabilities
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."
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references at the end of relevant chapters, includes Additional Reading and Resources (pages 257-263).
Table of contents: title: Thanks and Acknowledgments; title: Preface: Writing (with) a Movement from Bed; title: Part I; title: 1. Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access; title: 2. Crip Emotional Intelligence; title: 3. Making Space Accessible Is an Act of Love for out Communities; title: 4. Toronto Crip City: A Not-So-Brief, Incomplete Personal History of Some Moments in Time, 1997-2015; title: 5. Sick and Crazy Healer: A Not-So-Brief Personal History of the Healing Justice Movement; title: 6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E.T. Russian; title: Part II; title: 7. Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams; title: 8. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered by Disabled, Femme of Color, Working-Class/Poor Genius); title: 9. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come; title: 10. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips; title: Part III; title: 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; title: 12. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staying Alive Anyway; title: 13. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity; title: 14. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old; title: 15. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter; title: Part IV; title: 16. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation; title: 17. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability; title: 18. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Live Worth Living: Towards an Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood; title: 19. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern; title: Further Reading and Resources