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Care WorkLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Care Work

284 pagesFirst published 20182 editions
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In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi 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 knowledge 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…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2018
    Arsenal Pulp Press · 304 pages · 9781551527390
  • Other · English · 2018
    Arsenal Pulp Press · 263 pages · 9781551527383
People with disabilitiesSocial justiceLegal status, lawsMinorities, services forLGBTQ activismLGBTQ essaysDisabled PersonsSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General