Written very accessibly, these essays cover a wide range of topics, with a focus on the ways that disabled people, particularly those also marginalised due to race, gender, sexuality and class, work to help each other survive through ‘care webs’, when the state and non-disabled people will not provide care, or when the existing systems do more to harm than help. Ĭare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a book of beautiful, passionately-argued essays from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a chronically ill, disabled, queer woman of colour who has been an activist, performer and writer for many years in Canada and the USA. That there might be something they could learn from us. That we have our own cultures and histories and skills. Able-bodied people are shameless about really not getting it that disabled people could know things the abled don’t.
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