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

7 reviews

30something_reads's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

 Written pre 2020 but still 100% relevant given the ways in which our systems are continuing to dismantle health and safety precautions for the chronically ill. And you're only able-bodied until the day you aren't.

A great read for intersectional disability justice and building community care networks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Excrement, Police brutality, and Suicide attempt

historicalmaterialgirl's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has solidified herself as one of my favorite authors. She's so creative, realistic, hopeful and unpretentious in her writing. 

I genuinely loved and felt so inspired by the way she discussed mutual aid and care webs as ways to actually practice and try collective care and gift economies. DJ could give us so much insight into non-capitalistic economies and culture-building! And she's so honest about these practices too, like yeah sometimes it sucks or fails or lasts for a month or your needs contradict with each other. I also loved so so much, really truly needed, to read what she says about survivorship and being "not over it, not fixed." Honestly one of the best essays to ever exist sorry about it! She also gave me better insight into what disability justice looks irl, as well as commentary on love, access, aging, spirituality and misogyny that I really appreciated. 

I do diverge with some of what was written when we're talking about "femmephobia" and/or emotional labor. Call me old fashioned but girl that's just misogyny! And (emotionally) exhausting tasks/chores are not the same as labor the way communist writing has taught me to think of it. But I'm just annoying lmao this book was amazing go read it!!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Violence

rionstorm's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

There's some really good ideas and concrete resources in this book. There's also some wonderful utopian imagining and goal setting, which feels motivational and helped expand my thinking. 

It reads like a mix of a memoir, academic theory, and a practical guide, which was interesting. I struggled to get through certain sections that felt a little repetitive, or were very hyper-specific to Canada and the USA. The intense, firm narration style makes sense and fits with such vital subject matter, but for me became a bit overwhelming after a while, in the same way listening to a lot of impassioned speeches one after the other can make the words being said start to bounce off you a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Violence, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Religious bigotry and Stalking

tinyplanet's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

brighteyed's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

such a powerful book and really helped me reconsider dis/ability! i’m not necessarily the biggest fan of some stylistic choices but this is an amazing book :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

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