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

23 reviews

merenr's review against another edition

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

ksfinnerty's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Probably better as an audiobook than print. I learned a lot from the ideas and concepts and having author narration added a good layer. I think it might have felt more repetitive, impersonal, and maybe even uncomfortable with the unfamiliar ideas in print. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Stalking

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

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

pattytims's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Murder

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

wall0w's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading. Some may say it isn't a comfortable introduction to Disability Justice but I think it's vital to experience that discomfort. As with learning more in any area of justice, putting current comfort levels over learning leads to further injustice, and (especially with something as temporary as being abled) is an enormous to everyone, currently disabled or not

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Colonisation

lee_noel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

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