Care Work

Care Work
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
Publication date2018
ISBN978-1-55152-738-3

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a 2018 non-fiction essay collection by Canadian-American author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Vice included Care Work on their list of the top 10 books of 2018. The following year, it was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.

Contents

Preface

  • Preface: Writing (with) a Movement from Bed

Part 1

  1. Care Webs: Experiments 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 Healing Justice Movement
  6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E. T. Russian

Part 2

  1. Cripping the Apocolypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams/li>
  2. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered by Disabled, Femme of Color, Working-Class/Poor Genius)
  3. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come
  4. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips

Part 3

  1. Fuck the "Triumph of the Human Spirit": On Writing Dirty Water as a Queer, Disabled, and Femme-of-Color Memoir, and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives
  2. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staring Alive Anyway
  3. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity
  4. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old
  5. Two or Three Things I know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter

Part 4

  1. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation
  2. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability
  3. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living: Towards and Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood
  4. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern

References

  1. ↑ Amor, Bani (November 1, 2018). ""Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" Draws Real-as-F*ck Maps of Justice and Care". Autostraddle. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  2. ↑ de Bie, Alise; Brown, Kate; Grearson, Adam; Ramkishun, Amanda (February 7, 2020). "Care work: dreaming disability justice". Disability & Society. 35 (2): 341–343. doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1648369. ISSN 0968-7599.
  3. ↑ Jamal-Eddine, Sabrina Ali (July 2021). "Care work: Dreaming disability justice". Journal of Transformative Education. 19 (3): 287–289. doi:10.1177/15413446211011267. ISSN 1541-3446.
  4. ↑ Lautermilch, Amanda (2022). "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review)". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 16 (1): 121–124. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2022.9. ISSN 1757-6466.
  5. ↑ McLain, Elizabeth (March 31, 2021). "Review of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha". Disability Studies Quarterly. 41 (1). doi:10.18061/dsq.v41i1.7908. ISSN 2159-8371.
  6. ↑ Gonzalez-Dolginko, Beth (April 2, 2020). "A Review of "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice": by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018, 263 pp., cover illustration only, $19.95 Canada, $17.95 USA, paper, ISBN 978-1-55152-738-3". Art Therapy. 37 (2): 102–103. doi:10.1080/07421656.2020.1764784. ISSN 0742-1656.
  7. ↑ Whiddington-Sadlowski, Claire (September 14, 2023). "Review of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 12 (2): 206–210. ISSN 1929-9192.
  8. ↑ Winnick, Laura (November 14, 2018). "The 10 Best Books We Read in 2018". VICE. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Publishing Triangle Announces Best LGBTQ Books of 2018 at 31st Annual Triangle Awards Ceremony". The Publishing Triangle. April 26, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2022.