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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Content warnings: ableism, grief, pandemic, chronic illness, mental illness, racism, death, medical trauma, sexual assault, rape, suicide

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Librarybelle My library does not have this one, so I‘ll have to unfortunately set this month‘s out. I‘ll be back next month! 11h

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PuddleJumper My library doesn't have this. I'll sit this month out 10h

IriDas @Librarybelle and @PuddleJumper Your library should be able to get it for you via ILLiad, the internet library loan system. It might take a week, but it would be worth it. 7h

PuddleJumper @IriDas That's not applicable to my library system 7h

Librarybelle @IriDas Thanks for the tip! I‘m a former public librarian and love promoting ILL! This is on my radar for sometime later to read. I‘ll enjoy seeing everyone‘s thoughts on this book. 7h

Eggbeater My library has this on Hoopla. Can you add me, please? 6h

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“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

AnnCrystal What!! Our Governor Newsom?? What?? No...

🙏🏼💝. 1w

IriDas @AnnCrystal Newsom is a rich man‘s liberal, just like Brown. The needs of the common person are not his main interest. That has been obvious by, among many things, his cuts to education, his horrible “solution” to the teacher crisis, and, most recently, his fawning over the likes of Charlie Kirk. 1w

AnnCrystal @IriDas what!!!! Oh man, I stay as up to date with my politicians as much as I do my favorite celebrities...I have to do better. Especially in this day and age! Thanks, I will do more research. 🙏🐻💝. 1w

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#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

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#firstlinefridays

“I believe in the disabled future.”

ShyBookOwl

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IriDas

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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 ⬇️

IriDas The government, including the CDC, was perfectly OK with disabled, elderly, etc, deaths because they don‘t want disabled people here anyway. Even during the Biden administration the CDC proudly proclaimed that the only people really dying were the disabled and elderly and those who were gonna die anyway. (Sound familiar?) Hard read, but worth it. 2w

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#weeklyforecast

Will they ever finish Impossible Creatures? Inquiring minds want to know.

#summerreading

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The Davenports | Krystal Marquis

Happy Wednesday from Coco 🥥

dabbe #cuteycoco 🖤🐾🖤 3w

Paris_Reads @dabbe aww thank you 😊. She‘s a little diva lol 💕 3w

dabbe @Paris_Reads That tongue!!!! 🤣🐾🤣 3w

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Much Ado About Nada | Uzma Jalaluddin

I was out running errands and popped into Dollar Tree because I remembered that I needed super glue. I checked the book aisle, saw they restocked, grabbed as *much* as I could carry, ran into a former student and awkwardly chatted while my face was partially obscured by a towering book stack that kept getting heavier, aaand then proceeded to leave the store without super glue. 🤦🏼‍♀️ But look at this awesome stack for $20!!

AmyG Wow! 3w

Bookwormjillk Nice! I loved Flying Solo. 3w

TheBookHippie Me takes grandbaby hippie to dollar store… many dollars later…. We forgot the poster board we went for. Great stack! 3w

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Deblovestoread Fantastic haul! Loved The Dance Tree. 3w

jdiehr Nice! My store is due for a restock. I'm stalking them. There have been no changes in inventory for weeks! 3w

Christine Excellent! I‘ve found some of these there recently too but I‘ve certainly not seen the Linda Holmes! 3w

Meshell1313 That is a WIN! 🙌 3w

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | 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
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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#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.

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