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The Future Is Disabled

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

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In The Future Is Disabled, 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?

Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, 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.

Written 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, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future.

This updated edition includes a new chapter and afterword by the author.

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      October 1, 2022
      Piepzna-Samarasinha, a contributor to Alice Wong's Disability Visibility Project, is one of the strongest contemporary voices in the fields of disability and transformative justice. In an ableist society, most nondisabled folks still think of the disabled as disposable and as such, don't tend to think of them in visions of the future. In the here and now, the additional barriers of racial discrimination that many Black and brown disabled folks face are troubling and make it more difficult to seek out resources. The author starts with a discussion of how disabled people kept one another alive during the ongoing global pandemic. Many of the previously nondisabled have become disabled after contracting the virus. However, instead of empathy, many of these people show a strong aversion toward disabilities as being a catastrophe. In order to establish a better future, the author argues for the need to demolish internalized and externalized ableism. Unflinching and confrontational, The Future Is Disabled doesn't pull any punches. It is both an instructional guide and a critical, eye-opening manifesto that will help nondisabled readers engage with the subject matter.

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