Care Work in the Apocalypse: A book launch and conversation with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

What the hell is disability justice?  How do collective care, disability justice and sick and disabled Black and brown femmes save the world and each other during this time of apocalypse—or do we?  What are the histories and present day struggles and triumphs of disabled Black and brown queers in our movements and communities?  Come discuss these and other provocative questions with writer, cultural worker, and performer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.  They are the author of the new book, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

This event is wheelchair-accessible, and ASL interpretation will be provided. We also seek to maintain a fragrance-free space and ask that our attendees refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, essential oils or other fragranced products.

Co-sponsored by DePaul African & Black Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Center for Black Diaspora, Center for Latino Research, Critical Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Latin American & Latino Studies, OIDE, Peace, Justice, & Conflict Studies, Women’s & Gender Studies, and UIC Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Department of Disability and Human Development