The future is disabled : prophecies, love notes, and mourning songs / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-
Date:
[2022]
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"In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of their 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 concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honour 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 Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future."--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]

Physical description

333 pages ; 21 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction. Writing a disabled future, in progress -- Part I. Disability justice in the end times -- Chapter 1. "We were maybe not going to save the world, but we were going to save each other" : how disabled mutual aid is different than abled mutual aid -- Tiny disabled moment #1. Small moments of disabled knowing -- Chapter 2. Interdependence is not some giant living in the hillside coming down to visit the townspeople : the church of show the fuck up, in real life -- Tiny disabled moment #2. "There is no disabled community here" -- Interlude. Pod mapping for mutual aid / by Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett -- Chapter 3. Disabled grief technologies : disability justice future-building in a time of mass grief -- Recipe. Rosewater for crying eyes -- Chapter 4. Nobody left behind and wanting to run like hell : disabled survival in climate crisis -- Chapter 5. Cripping the resistance : no revolution without us -- Recipe. Stacey soup -- Chapter 6. Still dreaming wild disability justice dreams at the end of the world -- Tiny disabled moment #3. The free library of beautiful adaptive things -- Chapter 7. The future is disabled / with Karine Myrgianie Jean-François, Nelly Bassily, Sage Lovell, Sarah Jama, and Syrus Marus Ware -- Part II. The stories that keep us alive : disability justice arts in the interregnum -- Chapter 8. Twenty questions for disability justice art dreaming : a winter solstice present -- Chapter 9. I wanna be with you everywhere (and I am) : disability justice art as freedom portal -- Chapter 10. Disability justice writing, the beauty and the difficulty -- Chapter 11. Autistic long-form, short-form, no-form, echotextia : autistic poetic forms -- Chapter 12. Cripping the book tour -- Sample access rider -- Part III. The disabled future -- Tiny disabled moment #4. ADA 30 / DJ 15 -- Chapter 13. Disabled secrets -- Chapter 14. What really happens in DJ groups -- Chapter 15. Home is a holy place : the sacred organizing spaces of disabled homes -- Tiny disabled moment #5. LL comes to me -- Chapter 16. Loving Stacey : an honor song -- Tiny disabled moment #6. Adaptive trike -- Chapter 17. Wild disabled joy : disabled pleasure activism -- Chapter 18. Wild disabled futures : the future is now.

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  • 9781551528915
  • 1551528916