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I started this the morning before Alice Wong passed, so it took me a bit longer to get through, it was sad and inspiring to hear her mentioned so often throughout LLPS's book. This is hard to rate. It isn't really about the future, it is mostly about 2020-2022 and how GD hard it was. I think this is a good read for people who want to understand the community and life more, but overall it is a bit meandering

"It turns out the end of the world is easier to read about in a book, then to know how to respond in real life "

“Ableism robs us of our ability to see disabled possibilities, even ones that might be relatively small.” The book is an honest & brutal collection of essays about what it is like, particularly in the US, to live a disabled life. The disability community has to constantly fight to have equal access to services, rights. The book highlights the struggles that the disability community dealt with during the pandemic. Ableism continues to be pervasive

I appreciated the author's emphasis in this book on the lives of people in the marginalized QTBIPOC disabled community. So often, they are overlooked.

As a disabled person, I found the book to be hopeful, helpful, and enlightening. I am often not aware of my own ableism or need for community of others like me. I feel like I learned a lot.

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We need a Care revolution

Adaptive devices
Accessible spaces
Library of things
Virtual events

The pandemic never ended 😷

Crip pleasure - joy is resistance. Existence is resistance
Crip doula

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Disability justice
Care work
People tell you to “Feel better soon”
Grief - I'm dealing with so much of this, for dreams and life I thought I would have

Mutual aid
Do what you can. What you're able ❤️

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I really resonated with this book as a fat femme with multiple chronic illnesses. One of which I'm still trying to get a diagnosis for even though I've been dealing with it my whole life. I'm newer to the disabled community so this book was a great learning tool for myself. One of my goals is to find and build disabled support for myself both online and local.

What did y'all think of the book? Anything that stood out?

Reminder for #riseupreads July 2025

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Content warnings: ableism, grief, pandemic, chronic illness, mental illness, racism, death, medical trauma, sexual assault, rape, suicide

“We die because we don‘t matter in the non-disabled world.”

Note: This book is not easy.

If anyone doesn‘t believe this quote after everything we witnessed since the beginning of COVID, their heads are so deep in the sand they‘ve hit bedrock. I really feel this now that Trump‘s man RFK Jr is destroying the few things that were protecting my daughter and the governor of California is actively cutting services to disabled people.

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Back to work this week. The digital book is both audio and ebook, depending on my activity or mood. The physical is to read at work since we are not supposed to be using our phones in the office/classroom due to the nature of our work.

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“I believe in the disabled future.”

This will be a hard read. Especially for folks with no experience with the hardships disabled people face, let alone those who are disabled AND (queer, BIPOC, etc.). Everything written in the intro about white disabled “spaces” is true, even for white people who might not have access to care through insurance or their own money. In Chapter 1, COVID response is spelled out perfectly by pointing out that ⬇️

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Will they ever finish Impossible Creatures? Inquiring minds want to know.

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The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Read at your own pace. There will be a discussion posted on Litsy at the end of the month.

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“Care work is grief work.“

I'm about a third of the way into listening to this book. It's not short stories and it's not abstract pie-in-the-sky futurism. It draws on both SF and on crip experiences in the pandemic to talk about crip work, care work, mutual aid, grief work, crip art, climate justice and so on.

(Content note: pandemic heavy.)

Making a Beaded Collar Peplum #audiocrafting #litsycrafters

Well this looks fascinating. Borrowed.

5☆ Written throughout the last two years, this book is a love letter to disabled folks, and an informative read for anyone interested in disabilty justice, the care crisis and more. What a gift and vital tool this book is. #bookreview