What if, soon, most of us will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? This is what Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks in The Future Is Disabled. Wouldn't it be great if disability justice and disabled wisdom held the key to a future where fascism, climate change, and pandemics could be overcome and liberation achieved?
In The Future Is Disabled, essays explore what disability justice is, has been, and could be. Our futures deserve just futures, and this book makes it possible. It contains disabled stories, secrets, knowledge, humour, and creativity that we need now. This book is astonishing and necessary - a token of the brown crip queer femme's love, hope, rage, and grief. You will want to dog-ear this book, write in it, quote it from memory, and give it to all your disabled friends, lovers, comrades, and fellow artists you hope to inspire.
As a sci-fi novel, The Future is Disabled creates worlds that were previously reserved for science fiction. As blazingly experimental as it is grounded in the practical work of justice for people with disabilities in everyday life, this book is committed to the community.
The book provides clear instructions on how disabled people can get free in a multitude of voices from words of wisdom, interludes, herbal remedies, recipes, autistic long form and access riders to provide clear directions. As Piepzna-Samarasinha weaves history into her groundbreaking book, she leaves readers with a sense of hope that the future of disabled people is here.
In addition to a handbook, terminology, and effective representation, she has also provided us with an overview of disadvantage fairness, consistent with our era's fast-expanding natural flows. With respect for their generations, patriarchs, and the future generations of disadvantaged intellectuals of power, Piepzna-Samarasinha created a program to honour, elegize, and forge chronically ill and incapacitated voters.
The Future is Disabled moves us past disadvantage as a correspondence classification or knowledge of restriction justice as an antagonistic-misery check mark. By giving her beloved society on her own terms, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha educates us that disadvantage fairness is a likely globe that already lies, adequate of the love we get and the complicatedness we earlier incorporate.
Groundbreaking, comical, and brightly inscribed, this book is a vital manual for guidance along the route, often over water-incapacitated bereavement, pleasure, and continuation in pandemic opportunities. If you need recommendations on by means of what to person causing problem shared aid, by what method to make progressive incapacitated skill, or in what way or manner to form some literally good poultry variety, this book has you covered.
A few reviews and we quote,
The Future is Disabled is full of passion, compassion and fire. Its 18 chapters blur the lines between memoir, political essay, rant and eulogy, all of them united by the conviction that everybody, mind, race and gender matter. -Ms. Magazine
In this searing essay collection, Piepzna-Samarasinha presents a hopeful glimpse into the future by examining the present from a disability justice lens ... It's a thought-provoking read. -Buzzfeed
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