The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

by Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
5 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9781551528915
Availability:
  • Online Only
$17.03
New - Trade Paperback - 9781551528915

Available Offers

Overview

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is regarded as one of the leading
voices on disability justice, particularly as seen through a queer, racialized
lens; their 2018 book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice has become
an essential and influential text on the subject. In The Future Is Disabled,
Leah expands on the ideas around disability justice and care introduced in Care
Work, including the impact of the global pandemic on crip lives.

With passion and power, Leah writes about crip interdependence,
care and mutual aid, disabled community building, and disabled art practice.
And as the concept of disability justice becomes more mainstream through
Instagram memes and corporate posturing, Leah explores the honest and complex experiences
of crip lives, and the challenges of creating collective care and community.

The Future Is Disabled is a bold
and compassionate book that argues that in order for the crip community to
survive and undo the harm resulting from the pandemic, the climate crisis,
capitalism, settler colonialism, and racism, we need―and deserve―a radical
disabled future.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
  • ISBN: 9781551528915
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English

Customer Reviews