Care work : dreaming disability justice / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
"Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which advoca...
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| Other title: | Dreaming disability justice. |
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| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
Arsenal Pulp Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- I.
- 1. Care webs : experimenting in creating collective access
- 2. Crip emotional intelligence
- 3. Making space accessible is an act of love for our communities
- 4. Toronto crip city : a not-so-brief, incomplete personal history of some moments in time, 1997-2015
- 5. Sick and crazy healer : a not-so-brief personal history of the healing justice movement
- 5. Crip sex movements and the lust of recognition : a conversation with E.T. Russian
- II.
- 7. Cripping the apocalypse : some of my wild disability justice dreams
- 8. A modest proposal for a fair trade emotional labor economy (centered by disabled, femme of color, working-class/poor genius)
- 9. Prefigurative politics and radically accessible performance spaces : making the world to come
- 10. Chronically ill touring artist pro tips
- III.
- 11. Fuck the "triumph of the human spirit" : on writing Dirty River as a queer, disabled, and femme-of-color memoir, and the joys of saying fuck you to traditional abuse survivor narratives
- 12. Suicidal ideation 2.0 : queer community leadership and staying alive anyway
- 13. So much time spent in bed : a letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on chronic illness, coatlicue, and creativity
- 14. Prince, chronic pain, and living to get old
- 15. Two or three things I know for sure about femmes and suicide : a love letter
- IV.
- 16. For badass disability justice, working-class and poor-led models of sustainable hustling for liberation
- 17. Protect your heart : femme leadership and hyper-accountability
- 18. Not over it, not fixed, and living a life worth living : towards an anti-ableist vision of survivorhood
- 19. Crip lineages, crip futures : a conversation with Stacey Milbern.