Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In
The
Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative
questions: What if the majority of people will be disabled in the near future―and
what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled
wisdom become crucial if we're going to create a future where we survive
fascism, climate change, and pandemics?
Building
on the work of her game-changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability
Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of
the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each
other―and the rest of the world―alive during Trump, fascism and the
COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual
aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as
survival and joy.
Written
over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the
pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC
(and those who care about us and the work of disability justice, the care
crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone;
recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled
families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy
in the face of death. With passion and power,
The Future Is Disabledremembers our dead and insists on our future.