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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer, disable, femme writer, organizer, activist, educator. They have toured extensively with a disable performance art group, Sins Invalid, and several of the essays focus on ways to take care of oneself while traveling and touring venues that are likely less accessible than their websites claim. As someone who hopes to book tour in the future with a disabled co-author, this gave me a lot of food for thought about committing to booking only wheelchair accessible venues and other ways I might plan my own events to be more open to all, from hiring sign interpreters to having fragrance-free zones. I also really enjoyed the histories and stories of the early Disability Justice movement, the thoughts on chronic illness and creativity, and on care webs and mutual aid for disabled people designed by disabled people. This is a book I will likely buy to refer back to in the future (as I sadly now have to give back the library copy I've been hoarding for 4 months).