Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

5 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Ableism, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Cancer, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Fatphobia, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

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

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

3va's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, Medical trauma, and Child abuse

hilaryreadsbooks's review

5.0

[Thank you Arsenal Pulp for a gifted copy] 

Leah begins: “I believe in the disabled future.” I remember dreams of something like this, where disabled bodyminds are celebrated and respected and, to use language that Leah themself chooses, allowed to come home. 

This book. It’s a mourning (because how many disabled people have we lost to the pandemic and medical violence and lack of access to the care they need?); it’s a catalog (because the contributions of disabled people are so often ignored, even as abled people learned crip ways that have always existed as a way of survival); it’s an act of love (because how else to describe how Leah always manages to write words that make me go yes, yes, yes). Leah herself also titles it as prophecies, because even under the weight of grief, this is first and foremost about crip dreaming, about creation, about fashioning better worlds where all bodyminds are made to feel safe, welcome, and dignified—and keep dreaming, Leah tells us, please keep dreaming—they dare us, guide us lovingly, to imagine our answer to the question: “What future would you create if you leaned into the wild crip imaginings you maybe have not let yourself imagine?” 

If you are disabled, read this to be held in your grief, pain, and dreaming. If you are not disabled, this book is here to hold you too, and to remind you to be humbled by the glorious ways that crip bodyminds traverse this earth, and that the ferocity of our beings is something that cannot be ignored. 

Arsenal Pulp—please keep publishing disabled voices! We love you for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Ableism, Medical trauma, and Medical content