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The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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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. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
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Lauredhel
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“Care work is grief work.“

I'm about a third of the way into listening to this book. It's not short stories and it's not abstract pie-in-the-sky futurism. It draws on both SF and on crip experiences in the pandemic to talk about crip work, care work, mutual aid, grief work, crip art, climate justice and so on.

(Content note: pandemic heavy.)

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Lauredhel
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Making a Beaded Collar Peplum #audiocrafting #litsycrafters

julesG Wow! Looks amazing. 2y
SamAnne Beautiful! 2y
dabbe Gorgeous! 💙💚 2y
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Lauredhel
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Well this looks fascinating. Borrowed.

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5☆ Written throughout the last two years, this book is a love letter to disabled folks, and an informative read for anyone interested in disabilty justice, the care crisis and more. What a gift and vital tool this book is. #bookreview

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