{"product_id":"the-future-is-disabled-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha-9781551528915","title":"The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Future Is Disabled\u003c\/em\u003e, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled--and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the work of her game changing book \u003cem\u003eCare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other--and the rest of the world--alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, \u003cem\u003eThe Future Is Disabled\u003c\/em\u003e remembers our dead and insists on our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated edition includes a new chapter and afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1551528916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781551528915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022 pg. 11","brand":"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945951232255,"sku":"9781551528915","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1dd0e085-6613-4d6b-a0e2-578d828744f5.jpg?v=1681510686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-future-is-disabled-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha-9781551528915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}