Picked up this collection after having Hedva’s Your Love is Not Good on my physical TBR for years. I’ve never quite been in the mood for it, but was intrigued by their work, and this collection of essays centred around disability justice was an excellent introduction to Hedva’s punky, no-bullshit style. Their comments about how they wish writers who write about disability weren’t pigeon-holed into the subject, and how they themselves embraced chaos when it comes to genre, made me super excited to finally pick up Your Love is Not Good in 2025. 

Hedva doesn’t beat around the bush. As they put it, everyone should care about disability justice because it’s not a case if you become disabled, but when. Everyone will get sick, get injured, eventually need care. Realising that society sees care as acceptable only if it’s a temporary state, is like a slap in the face. Permanent care under capitalism is not acceptable; if you’re not giving your productive 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, what are you to capitalism? Useless. 

Along with disability, Hedva also explores kink and sex, community, queerness, and I appreciated mostly all of the essays. Lots of nuggets of wisdom, lots of reminders that we can all do so much better by one another, and that it’s better to try and sometimes fail at activism, than to give it up completely as a lost cause.