Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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.

Everyone needs to listen to this book

I feel so thankful to have been recommended this as I am sorting through my own relationship with disability and my body in the context of being in my 20s and with what is going on around me. I brought this audio with me, like a friend, over the last month and I will continue to think of the words, wisdom, imagining, shared here.🫂

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.