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

26 reviews

merenr's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

 Took me a super long time to read because the content was challenging for me. Big trigger warnings for SH, s**cide, SA, racism/queerphobia/ableism and a bunch of other stuff. 

During my reading, I often felt like: FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS. So many painful things that I feel the community has not spoken up about. So many words unsaid that are fully realized in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s words. Audiobook is highly recommended, read by the author. I can’t express enough how the author gave words to what I could never parse together coherently. 

Care Work made me realize so many of the questions I have are not answered by psychology and traditional mental health practices, but rather Disability Justice. Slowly, I’ve been coming to terms about my disabled identity too. Ahhhh so many thoughts. So much growth and development igniting in me. Uncomfortable too. 

If you’re in an alright headspace, give this book a try, and make sure you take care of yourself and give yourself lots of breaks if you’re sensitive to the material. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

megbert581's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Such a good book that covers so many topics related to disability life, justice, intersectionality of queer and BIPOC experiences, boundaries, sustainability, grief, joy and more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Racism, and Suicide

puttingwingsonwords's review

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Rape, and Suicide

abookwormspov's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

An absolutely stunning and incredibly informative collection of essays. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

caprivoyant's review

My heart! This book was so needed and so healing.

Personally, I especially appreciated the essay/chapter on ableism in the spiritual and energy-healing communities. It validated a lot about how I experienced that community and made me feel less alone or like less of a failure by not being able to change it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Incest, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

fruityfairy1312's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Sexual violence, and Suicide

crybabybea's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.75

Opened my eyes to how I view myself and the people around me. Validated so many things for me.

Definitely made me realize how often disability gets overlooked in public spaces. 

Gave me hope that a care-centered community is possible.

Although a lot of the material talked about is sad (check TW), overall I felt the tone of the book was extremely hopeful, and I found the intimate look at care-centered communities beautiful and spiritual.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kateellis00's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism

teeclecticreads's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

I feel like I was given a long, tight hug and told that things will be ok 🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Transphobia

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