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Care Work
- Narrator
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 24 December 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.
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- Author
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrator
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Duration
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 December 2019
- ISBN
- 9781515947776
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Politics and government, Central / national / federal government policies, Society and culture: general, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Social welfare and social services, Disability: social aspects
Synopsis
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.
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