Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning 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 Work is 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 Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

©2018 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (P)2019 Tantor

Critical reading for EVERYONE.

This is beautiful, this is personal, this is exactly the perspective the world needs to be listening to and elevating right now. Leah does the most amazing job of making the extremely difficult work of telling community story through personal perspective (without being personally narrowed) look easy and flawless. Leah, you gave words to things I hadn't even fully faced in myself yet. Thank you. This work is priceless, and hopefully you are well compensated for it.

Inspired

The author gives a performance that is raw and inspiring to other sick and disabled people.

A beautiful story told with tenderness and care

This is my first time listening to Care Work and it was such an intimate and compelling tale of life. Life and all of the beautiful ways that humans adapt to live the best lives we can, with grace and integrity, love passion, care and pleasure. All the ways we both achieve that quality of living, and all of the ways we fall short, and every way and experience that we have trying to hold and build connections with others that remind us of our worth and power along the way.

Excellent!

This wonderful book challenged me in all the best ways. The writing is warm compassionate brave thoughtful and so so informative. I wish every person would read this.

accessible book on disability justice

as a disabled person for over a decade, i have been aware that it has taken me nearly as long to create the community i need and deserve. if this book had found me years earlier, the whispered "i am allowed to take up space. i deserve to be here. i am not alone." that i heard in my head from the beginning for my chronic illnesses, would have always been too loud to disregard. i am so grateful i have found it now.
this book has given words to experiences i thought were unique and unexplainable. as a femme presenting nonbinary autistic creative with multiple illnesses, leah spoke to me from all directions. this book has expanded how i create and maintain boundaries with neurotypical and ablebodied ppl as well as those within my loving disabled community. i am grateful to have found it and i look forward to reading their other book, the future is disabled.

Far exceeded my expectations

This book was the salve I needed, the mirror that gave me a rare reflection of myself that was both honest and someone I didn’t hate. Leah is a real, broken human and a goddess all in one. What a love.

New Favorite book!

I absolutely love and appreciate this book. I am grateful I found it and get to listen to Leah’s story and the story of community. I will absolutely be purchasing more copies for friends.

Yes.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book… it provided a perspective that I wasn’t acknowledging or embracing. It was an enjoyable and informative listen and I look forward to listening again to glean more insights as I let this marinate.

I just finished & ready to start again.

I finished listening in three days. It was wonderful to listen to the story narrated by the author. So much said that needs to be heard by a larger audience. I related in many ways, and also was engaged in listening to experiences I cannot relate to; narratives that are so important to be told by QTBIPOC. I'm very grateful for this book!

Amazing

This book has completely changed the way I view disability and what it would mean to live in a world that values human beings over profit, efficiency, and simplicity. It's the world I want to live in, as complex and challenging as making that world will be. This book offered me a vision of what it means to care that is different than anything I've ever read before. I also love the author's narration. I will be reading and rereading this book and chewing on these concepts for a long time.