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

8 reviews

autieshawtie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

So deeply needed and felt. More words later, for now: I am grateful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

mallyj_20's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

novella42's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was too powerful for me to be able to give a coherent review right after finishing it. I will say that as a white disabled queer woman, I am immensely grateful to learn these stories, struggles, and wisdom from QTBIPOC disabled community leaders and visionaries. I think this is the most important book I have read in years.

The essay that made the biggest impact on me from this book is “Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living: Towards an Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood.” It gave me a glimpse of role models who were living and thriving beyond the basic cultural myth that we can be cured/fixed/reset to factory settings after trauma. Not an easy read, but so helpful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Vomit, Police brutality, and Religious bigotry

charlottejones952's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.0

I'll admit that I didn't complete the last 2 chapters but this was because of the content. This book is enlightening but tough so I don't know who I'd recommend to. Discussion of care work and ableism were fascinating but the trauma and surviverhood was too blunt and difficult to read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, and Sexual harassment

lily1304's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I read this to learn more about disability justice, which I did, but I also learned different ways of thinking about caring for myself and others. I definitely want to reread this later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

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

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