In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi 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.