![]() ![]() I learned a lot about my own ableism and ableist assumptions through this book. She writes with openness and intelligence and invites readers into her world, which made Care Work such a compelling read. She writes about so many important topics, including the importance of accessibility and how we should strive beyond accessibility too, the ways that we should honor and celebrate femme labor and pain as opposed to devaluing it, and questioning the survivor-industrial complex that states that survivors of abuse or trauma have to present a certain way to receive respect and dignity. ![]() In Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha delves deep into the realities and politics of disability justice, a movement that centers sick and disabled queer and trans Black and brown people. One of the most mind-expanding and heart-opening books I have ever read. ![]()
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