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In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna‑Samarasinha poses provocative questions about a world where the majority of people are disabled, challenging the perception of disability as a deficit. Drawing on insights from Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and documenting how disabled communities sustained each other through Trump‑era politics, fascism, and the COVID‑19 pandemic, the author examines crip interdependence, caregiving, mutual aid, community building, and disabled art practice as strategies of survival and joy. Written during two years of pandemic‑induced isolation, the book takes the form of love letters, honor songs, recipes, and real‑talk on care, organizing, disabled families, kin networks, and the affirmation that a future of liberation is possible.
First publish date: 2022
Genre: Politics & Government/Public Policy
Authors: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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