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Books · Oct 2022

The Future Is Disabled

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Piepzna-Samarasinha turns disabled survival, grief, mutual aid, and imagination in the COVID era into a political account of disabled futures.

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Books · Sep 2022

Year of the Tiger

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeAlice Wong

Alice Wong's memoir braids Asian American identity, disability activism, family, humor, media work, and community building into a personal archive of disability justice.

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Books · Jun 2020

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.

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Books · May 2020

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Liat Ben-Moshe

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · Jan 2020

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

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Books · Oct 2018

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.

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Books · Feb 2017

Brilliant Imperfection

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with CureEli Clare

Through disability, trans experience, eugenic history, and environmental restoration, Eli Clare dismantles the ideology of cure while preserving the necessary tension between medical need and refusal of normalization.

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Books · May 2013

The Transgender Studies Reader 2

Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura

This second reader documents the expansion of transgender studies into race, disability, migration, postcolonial critique, embodiment, and media.

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Books · May 2013

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Alison Kafer

Alison Kafer links disability, queer, and feminist theory to challenge the ableist idea of a normal future and to imagine crip futures grounded in coalition, care, and justice.

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Books · Oct 2011

Feminist Disability Studies

Kim Q. Hall

Edited by Kim Q. Hall, Feminist Disability Studies systematically links feminist theory and disability studies, examining embodiment, ability norms, public policy, representation, sexuality, and public life as co-producers of gendered and disabled inequality.