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In The Future Is Disabled Leah Laksmi PiepznaSamarasinha asks some provocative questions What if in the near future the majority of people will be disabledand what if thats not a bad thing And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which its 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 PiepznaSamarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each otherand the rest of the worldalive during Trump fascism and the COVID19 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