Care Work


Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a 2018 non-fiction essay collection by Canadian-American author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Vice included Care Work on their list of the top 10 books of 2018. The following year, it was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.

Contents

Preface

  • Preface: Writing a Movement from Bed

    Part 1

  1. Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access
  2. Crip Emotional Intelligence
  3. Making Space Accessible is an Act of Love for Our Communities
  4. Toronto Crip City: A Not-So-Brief, Incomplete Personal History of Some Moments in Time, 1997-2015
  5. Sick and Crazy Healer: A Not-So-Brief Personal History of Healing Justice Movement
  6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E. T. Russian

    Part 2


  1. Cripping the Apocolypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams/li>
  2. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy
  3. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come
  4. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips

Part 3


  1. Fuck the "Triumph of the Human Spirit": On Writing Dirty Water as a Queer, Disabled, and Femme-of-Color Memoir, and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives
  2. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staring Alive Anyway
  3. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity
  4. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old
  5. Two or Three Things I know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter

Part 4


  1. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation
  2. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability
  3. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living: Towards and Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood
  4. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern