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Alt-text: cover of the book "Care work: Dreaming disability justice" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The words "Care work" are written in green, bold and large capital letters with "Dreaming disability justice" written in blue, thin and capital letters between "Care" and "work". The cover shows an almost pencil sketch of a person of colour that appears to be holding an uprooted tree on their own.  
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It's hard for me to put my thoughts into words at the moment. I personally have not read a single work that made me feel this seen.

This deeply intersectional book talks about how we care for the people around us and how politically radical it is, but also how, as disables women and femmes QT-BIPOC we can forget ourselves when we give so much to our disabled siblings. It talks about how often we lie to our therapists about our constant struggle with ideation for fear of it being put in a record or having some of our resources taken away from us. It talks about crip sex and crip care. It talks about how we've been abused by abled people who forced "care" on us and how us, disabled QT-BIPOC people, know how to create access and to take care of each other. It talks about the internalised ableism within our families. It talks about an attempt at making a disabled mutual care network in Toronto and how both beautiful and brutal it was, and so so much more.

I wanted to write my own little summary of it, but I don't think my summary would do it justice like the one provided with the audiobook itself:

*In this collection of essays, Lambda LIterary Award-Winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, black, and brown people with knowledge and gifts for all.*

*Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.*

This book made me genuinely cry. What is something that made you feel really seen? Do you have any more Disabled QT-BIPOC authors/artists/creators to recommend? (CW: mentions of ideation)