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The Future Is Disabled
- Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?
Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care, and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy.
Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death.
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- steph
- 28-02-23
Perfection.
Brilliant soul food for the times we are living through. Leah is a fantastic writer and passionate reader.
This book allows me to think, mourn, organize, hope and more. I made sure to make it available at my local library, it's Disability Justice 101.
I love the different chapters too.
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- Kenzieo
- 20-12-22
Amazing and essential
This book makes me for the first time want to be part of a book club and gift to all my friends - gorgeous combination of stories, theory, history and questions. Restorative and challenging !
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- Rachel
- 13-04-24
Essential listening for anyone interested in Disability Justice
Brilliant, joyful, inspiring, unapologetic, intelligent. Anyone interested in Disability and Social Justice needs this book.
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