Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

6 reviews

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism and Transphobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

emath98's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

If you are going to read only one book this year, make it this one. An incredible book that has made me feel so much less alone, and has reignited my convictions in continuing to be covid safe as a radical act of community love 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

culpeppper's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was a beautiful series of essays. Truly changed how I view care work, myself, those around me, and recontextualized how I view the world. I cried, I grieved, I laughed, I felt held by these essays while listening to the author read her own book in her own voice. I'm very excited to read Care Work, when I have proper time to process it. For now, I am recommending this to others who want to grow their care, empathy, desire for change, and introduce them to disability justice, specifically because Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha seems to have shared a piece of her soul with the greater world, and it would be a shame if it's beauty wasn't shared. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

arlingtonchamberofgay's review

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Leah has a way of making me feel seen, in all of my AuDHD, queer, enby, disabled splendor. On the days when the everyday ableism and fear of the MIC neglecting me to the point of death, I come back to their and DJ’s words. And I remember I’m not alone, I can not only imagine a disabled future, but help to make it a reality. There will always be work to do, but we can at least live a life worth while at the same time.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Suicide, Transphobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual violence and Police brutality

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

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

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

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: Homophobia, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Death of parent