{"product_id":"the-future-is-disabled-prophecies-love-notes-and-mourning-songs-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Lambda Literary Award-winning queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher\/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish\/Roma ascent. Their previous books include \u003ci\u003eCare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and they are co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593859895570,"sku":"9781551528915","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2532beea-eeee-49f3-9ace-c7260f2ad32a.jpg?v=1732123212","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-future-is-disabled-prophecies-love-notes-and-mourning-songs-9781551528915","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}