The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | 
“We die because we don‘t matter in the non-disabled world.”
Note: This book is not easy.
If anyone doesn‘t believe this quote after everything we witnessed since the beginning of COVID, their heads are so deep in the sand they‘ve hit bedrock. I really feel this now that Trump‘s man RFK Jr is destroying the few things that were protecting my daughter and the governor of California is actively cutting services to disabled people.
#disability
#weeklyforecast
Back to work this week. The digital book is both audio and ebook, depending on my activity or mood. The physical is to read at work since we are not supposed to be using our phones in the office/classroom due to the nature of our work.
#disability
This will be a hard read. Especially for folks with no experience with the hardships disabled people face, let alone those who are disabled AND (queer, BIPOC, etc.). Everything written in the intro about white disabled “spaces” is true, even for white people who might not have access to care through insurance or their own money. In Chapter 1, COVID response is spelled out perfectly by pointing out that ⬇️
#weeklyforecast
Will they ever finish Impossible Creatures? Inquiring minds want to know.
#summerreading
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#RiseUpReads July 2025
The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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#RiseUpReads July 2025
The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Read at your own pace. There will be a discussion posted on Litsy at the end of the month.
Please tag me in your posts & use #riseupreads
If you're not currently tagged & would like to be, let me know.
“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.)
Making a Beaded Collar Peplum #audiocrafting #litsycrafters
Well this looks fascinating. Borrowed.
pick5☆ 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
🙏🏼💝. 1d