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Quotes from Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

born 1975 United States

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Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

Writing from bed is a time-honored disabled way of being an activist and a cultural worker. It's one the mainstream doesn't often acknowledge but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair at age 98.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

We have ancestral shame to heal. We have disabled lineages to honor. Let’s get to it.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.