Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah 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 implications 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 labor, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of color.

Care Work is essentially 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 toolkit 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 for all.




‘Page after
page, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha documents the necessity, power, and
sheer brilliance of disability justice. Be prepared for her words, stories, and
political thinking to shake up what you know about care and access, revolutionary
dreaming, and present-day resilience.’ Eli Clare, author of Brilliant
Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile



‘Leah knows that the world we deserve is a world shaped by the
honest, messy, skillful genius of disabled queer femmes of color. Reading this
book allows you to live inside the gorgeous, uncomfortable, emergent,
compassionate world that disabled femmes of color have been making all along.’ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of M Archive and Spill, co-editor
of Revolutionary Mothering

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Pr US
Publication date: 04/05/2024