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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is a 2018 non-fiction essay collection by Canadian-American author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Vice included Care Work on their list of the top 10 books of 2018. The following year, it was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.

Contents

Preface

• Preface: Writing (with) a Movement from Bed

Part 1

1. Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access
2. Crip Emotional Intelligence
3. Making Space Accessible is an Act of Love for Our Communities
4. Toronto Crip City: A Not-So-Brief, Incomplete Personal History of Some Moments in Time, 1997-2015
5. Sick and Crazy Healer: A Not-So-Brief Personal History of Healing Justice Movement
6. Crip Sex Moments and the Lust of Recognition: A Conversation with E. T. Russian

Part 2

7. Cripping the Apocolypse: Some of My Wild Disability Justice Dreams/li>
8. A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered by Disabled, Femme of Color, Working-Class/Poor Genius)
9. Prefigurative Politics and Radically Accessible Performance Spaces: Making the World to Come
10. Chronically Ill Touring Artist Pro Tips

Part 3

11. Fuck the "Triumph of the Human Spirit": On Writing Dirty Water as a Queer, Disabled, and Femme-of-Color Memoir, and the Joys of Saying Fuck You to Traditional Abuse Survivor Narratives
12. Suicidal Ideation 2.0: Queer Community Leadership and Staring Alive Anyway
13. So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity
14. Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old
15. Two or Three Things I know for Sure about Femmes and Suicide: A Love Letter

Part 4

16. For Badass Disability Justice, Working-Class and Poor-Led Models of Sustainable Hustling for Liberation
17. Protect Your Heart: Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability
18. Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living: Towards and Anti-Ableist Vision of Survivorhood
19. Crip Lineages, Crip Futures: A Conversation with Stacey Milbern

References

1. Amor, Bani (November 1, 2018). ""Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice" Draws Real-as-F*ck Maps of Justice and Care". Autostraddle. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
2. de Bie, Alise; Brown, Kate; Grearson, Adam; Ramkishun, Amanda (February 7, 2020). "Care work: dreaming disability justice". Disability & Society. 35 (2): 341–343. doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1648369. ISSN 0968-7599.
3. Jamal-Eddine, Sabrina Ali (July 2021). "Care work: Dreaming disability justice". Journal of Transformative Education. 19 (3): 287–289. doi:10.1177/15413446211011267. ISSN 1541-3446.
4. Lautermilch, Amanda (2022). "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review)". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 16 (1): 121–124. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2022.9. ISSN 1757-6466.
5. McLain, Elizabeth (March 31, 2021). "Review of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha". Disability Studies Quarterly. 41 (1). doi:10.18061/dsq.v41i1.7908. ISSN 2159-8371.
6. Gonzalez-Dolginko, Beth (April 2, 2020). "A Review of "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice": by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018, 263 pp., cover illustration only, $19.95 Canada, $17.95 USA, paper, ISBN: 978-1-55152-738-3". Art Therapy. 37 (2): 102–103. doi:10.1080/07421656.2020.1764784. ISSN 0742-1656.
7. Whiddington-Sadlowski, Claire (September 14, 2023). "Review of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. 12 (2): 206–210. ISSN 1929-9192.
8. Winnick, Laura (November 14, 2018). "The 10 Best Books We Read in 2018". VICE. Retrieved November 27, 2024.
9. "Publishing Triangle Announces Best LGBTQ Books of 2018 at 31st Annual Triangle Awards Ceremony". The Publishing Triangle. April 26, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2022.