In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Awardwinning 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 Workis 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 Workis a crucial and necessary call to arms.
This is the second non-fiction book weve published by Leah; the first, the memoirDirty River(2015), was a finalist for both a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangles Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. It continues to be a strong backlist seller for us; it is now in its third printing with sales of over 6,000 copies.Leah suffers from fibromyalgia, a muscle disorder that causes chronic pain. She has worked for many years in the disability justice movement, which not only advocates for the rights of disabled people (accessibility; health care issues) but also offers the disabled a means to empowerment and liberation, as well as sustainable systems of care and mutual support. Specifically, Leah is passionate about the movement as it affects sick and disabled people of color, queer people and color, and everyone else who's been excluded and marginalized from mainstream disability rights organizing.Spanning a decade of writing, these essays are both informativecollective access, survivor skills, the creation of disabled spacesand personal, in which Leah describes her own experiences as a queer person of color in the health care system, and as an advocate for providing tools to diló,
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