Reviews tagging 'Death'

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

19 reviews

sapphire's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

internationalreads's review

informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Medical trauma

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

I read the first half of this book really slowly--like, over the course of several months. The second half moved much more quickly for me, and I found it more engaging. But really overall I think this book is amazing and I would definitely recommend it. For people not in radical leftist spaces, the writing might be a bit of an adjustment, but I think this is a useful and important read for anyone, regardless of their background or relationship to disability. I'm glad I read it, and thankful for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's work to write it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Medical content

laurareads87's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am grateful that the author wrote this book and that I had the opportunity to read it.  Care Work is urgent, crucial, challenging, confronting, and so so needed.  I was deeply personally affected by some of the chapters, feeling like personal experiences and feelings I've had were named in ways that I appreciate and will carry with me.  I also feel like I've learned a lot, including about areas that I can do better, and will bring that learning into the work that I do -- I'm glad for those lessons, too.  Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Incest, Rape, and Self harm

emilykval's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

Rating may be revised later.
Part VI was really good and gave me a lot to think about, but other parts were repetitive, reductive, bad advice (eg regarding medication) or, just, lots of acronyms that weren't explained (the irony that it discusses making writing less academic to be accessible is not lost on me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

kelseyland's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

An incredible collection of essays that put forth a radical, transformative vision of disability justice that centers the voices and needs of disabled people, and particularly folks who are queer, trans, Black, indigenous, and POC. The essays range from the theory-based (what does healing look like when it is done by and for disabled people, and what are its goals?) to the practical (hacks for going on a book tour as a disabled person). Even if you  have a baseline familiarity with disability justice, this book is likely to make you consider ideas, perspectives, and/or forms of oppression that you haven't before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, and Medical content

emsim's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

alsoapples's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, and Medical content