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A review by graveyardpansy
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
5.0
beautiful, wonderful, incredibly meaningful and impactful. maybe(?) easier to read than Care Work for anyone looking to get into disability justice, but still contains in-depth, nuanced, and crucial conversations. there’s so much i love about this book. the way leah references and cites other DJ writers and thinkers really reinforces how broad and interconnected DJ work is, plus it leaves the reader with a lot of jumping-off points to dive deeper. some standout chapters to me include: chapter 1: we were maybe not going to save the world, but we were going to save each other - how disabled mutual aid is different than a led mutual aid, chapter 9: i wanna be with you everywhere (and i am) - disability justice art as freedom portal, chapter 11: autistic long-form, short-form, no-form, exchotextia: autistic poetic forms, and the entirety of part three (the disabled future.) there are so many points i highlighted in this book and will undoubtedly be coming back to. highly recommend.