{"product_id":"impact-statement-jody-chan-9781771316255","title":"Impact Statement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court documents, Jody Chan's \u003ci\u003eimpact statement\u003c\/i\u003e traces a history of psychiatric institutions within a settler colonial state. These poems bring the reader into the present moment of the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, capitalism and \"money models of madness,\" and \"wellness\" checks. Forming a ghost chorus, they sing an impact statement on migration and intergenerational trauma, gentrification, and police neglect of racialized violence against queer communities in Toronto--and how the \"wrong\" kinds of desire, be it across class, race, or gender lines, or towards other worlds, are often punished or disappeared. And yet, these poems also make space for what can take root, despite the impacts--care teams, collective grief rituals, dinners around a table with too many friends to fit. \u003ci\u003eimpact statement \u003c\/i\u003e imagines, and re-imagines, and re-imagines again, a queer, disabled, abolitionist revolution towards our communal flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jody Chan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177131625X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771316255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Jody Chan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616534982911,"sku":"9781771316255","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b79b16e-c8b6-4b2d-b9c8-94418b498d86.jpg?v=1703020876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impact-statement-jody-chan-9781771316255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}