The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa…
Want to Read $ 8.99"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births of disabled, Autistic, Mad, Neurodivergent, Deaf, and sick kids are celebrated, and there are memorials and healing and reparation sites on every psych ward, institution, nursing home, youth lockup, and “autistic treatment center"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled people of color (and disabled people in general) choosing each other is revolutionary. And, in many ways access should not be a revolutionary concept. It is the routine, every day part of the work. It is only the first step in movement building. People talk about access as the outcome, not the process, as if having spaces be accessible is enough to get us all free. Disabled people are so much more than our access needs; we can’t have a movement without safety and access, and yet there is so much more still waiting for us collectively once we build this skillset of negotiating access needs with each other. Tonight I am taking time to appreciate and enjoy access as a communication of our deepest desires. When my new friend makes their house wheelchair accessible so I can come over, a whole new level of safety and trust opens up. When a love takes initiative to reach out to event organizers to make sure my buds and I can fully participate, that’s thoughtfulness, and also political commitment in practice. When I eat dinner with dear ones and they know which spoon or cup to grab, that’s attunement. When I can ask a friend to move my body, it’s because I know they want me to be comfortable out in the world. When I can do the impairment-related parts of my routine around someone, that’s intimacy, a gift of letting each other into our most private worlds. Feeling thankful for access—and interdependence—as an opportunity for us to show up for one another, and also for crip spaces that give us a taste of what can take place when we have each other. I am so hungry for us to be together. I am so ready for what is around the corner. —STACEY PARK"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where access is no longer a question but a fait accompli. Gone are the days where our disabled bodies and minds are compared to the able-bodied and able-minded. We’ve flipped the script. We still like our non-queer, non–people of colour, non-disabled friends and we’ll have them at our fully accessible dance parties (which include comfy chairs and couches for our aches and pains, subwoofers that make you feel the vibrations, active listeners, and personal support workers, so we can fully enjoy our time out, and plenty of room as well as fully accessible bathrooms for wheelchair-users to dance, dance, and dance as well as pee with ease, and no stairs in sight and clear paths to sway or rest as we please). Because, please, did you really think this could go on, this able-bodied and -minded domination? It’s not that we’ve flipped the script to exert power and replicate oppressions on our able-bodied and able-minded friends, they just over time learned to not take up so much space and not be offended or feel left out if we don’t organize with them in mind. Actually, in our accessible/disabled future, binaries are broken. We fully live on and in the spectrum of possibilities of non-stigmatized minds and bodies. In this spectrum, we are fully connected to one another, which means that decolonization has happened and is still happening and that patriarchy has been toppled and much more. This interconnectedness that we now live daily means that sometimes our able-bodied and able-minded friends are learning every day, including from their mistakes, and are understanding in how many ways our differences and disabilities manifest. This also means that we have collectively built this future and thus have learned and understood differences and disabilities, and all of us are still doing that important work even when it is hard because this future world is ours! -KARINE MYRGIANIE JEAN-FRANÇOIS AND NELLY BASSILY, DAWN (DISABLED WOMEN’S NETWORK) CANADA"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
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4.44
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
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4.37
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3. Feminist, Queer, Crip
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4. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
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5. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
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6. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
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4.18
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12. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
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13. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
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14. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
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16. Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
By: Cara Page
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17. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
By: Shayda Kafai
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Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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18. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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19. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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20. Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
4.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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21. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
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