In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with implications and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative “collective access” — access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure — in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour.
Care Work is essentially a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of colour are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms for all.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Her books include the memoir Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, shortlisted for Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and the poetry collections Body Map and Love Cake. A lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid, she teaches, performs, and lectures across North America. Raised in Worcester, MA, she divides her time between T'karonto and South Seattle.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.
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