Care Work

Description:

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 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.

subjects: People with disabilities,  Social justice,  Legal status, laws,  Discrimination against people with disabilities,  Minorities, services for,  LGBTQ activism,  LGBTQ essays,  collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist,  Disabled Persons,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare,  HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies,  People with disabilities, legal status, laws, etc.,  Discrimination against people with disabilities, law and legislation,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Sociology,  General