Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

5 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Child abuse, Transphobia, Sexual content, and Homophobia

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 Holy shit, this is OUTSTANDING. Every essay gave me a new perspective, new impression, new things to ponder and grow from. Can't recommend enough, I loved this even more than the author's previous Care Work which I also loved. I can't wait to revisit this and glean even more wisdom from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, Ableism, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Cancer, Genocide, Homophobia, Murder, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Self harm, Abortion, Suicide, and Transphobia

razzberry_pi's review

challenging funny hopeful medium-paced

5.0

reflection on current events (covid, rise of facism, climate change) from late 2021/early 2022 with a QTBIPOC disability justice lens

holds space for the shitty things happening but works to build hope and inspiration for disabled futures

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Grief

Moderate: Death and Medical trauma

Minor: Misogyny, Death of parent, Transphobia, and Homophobia

bendy_bookworm's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was beautifully written and exceptionally informative. As a neurodivergent disabled non-binary person, I related to so many deeply personal thoughts and feelings expressed in this memoir. This was my first book by this author, but I will be picking up a copy of Care Work as soon as I can. As a journalism student who is also an aspiring author, this speaks volumes to the kind of work I wish to produce one day. Work that is proud to be unique and flawed, and is beautiful because of that. I also very much appreciate the BIPOC perspective that I don’t have as a white person. There was so much insight within these pages that I took to heart, and I will not be forgetting anytime soon. This is crip work at it’s finest. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Ableism

principite's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Excellent follow up from Care Work on disability justice. A really warm and inspiring collection of the history of DJ and the futures we can build. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Suicide