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Books · Oct 2022

The Future Is Disabled

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

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha connects disability justice to mutual aid, grief, climate survival, accessible art, and disabled joy - without romanticizing care work.

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Books · Sep 2022

Year of the Tiger

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeAlice Wong

A mixed-media memoir of Asian American family, disability, pandemic politics, access, humor, and collective care - asking whose knowledge and futures matter.

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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

A 50-essay map of trans studies after its first reader, tracing how race, migration, disability, state power, and local histories unsettle universal accounts of gender.

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Books · May 2013

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Alison Kafer

Alison Kafer's Feminist, Queer, Crip asks who gets included in feminist and queer futures, using disability, reproductive politics, environmental justice, and access to challenge ableist ideas of a 'better life.'

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Books · Oct 2011

Feminist Disability Studies

Kim Q. Hall

Edited by Kim Q. Hall, this collection links feminist theory and disability studies across embodiment, literature, race, citizenship, sexuality, and the politics of visibility.