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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
5.0

A very good collection of essays that explains the concept of Disability Justice and how it can become (and has become in some cases) a reality. The necessities of accesability, the survivor-industrial complex, the way community can uplift us through care networks and the ways in which womanhood, femmeness, race and queerness impact and compound ones experience as a disabled person and more are all topics these essays touch upon.
While at points things repeat due to the nature of it being made up of essays that were written at different points in time I found that this often added to my enjoyment of the book, allowing me to deepen my understanding and think back to the earlier chapter in the book where it had come up before. In general I learned a lot in this book and tremendously enjoyed it, particularly the parts about community and care.
Definitely a book I would recommend to anybody who wants to incorporate disability justice in their own community, who is disabled or in close community with disabled people, anybody who fights for accessability and greater inclusion of and greater care for disabled people.