Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative “collective access”—access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure—in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour.
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires
By Lyndsey Medford
A chronic illness and rising rates of autoimmune diseases in particular, including long COVID, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, anxiety, and disconnection. Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. Medford draws on her experiences with a rare autoimmune disease to illuminate the broader lessons we need to learn.
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Think Again.
The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
By Adam Grant
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people’s minds–and our own.
Blaque Pearle
By Tarris Marie
Tarris’s battle with a rare, progressive eye disorder called Stargardt disease led to what she calls her “season of loss”—a time when she felt she’d lost everything, including her purpose in life. Tarris started writing on Juneteenth 2020, and the result is her riveting debut, Blaque Pearle, in which the genres of women’s crime and urban romance collide in a sophisticated, action-packed story featuring a deeply flawed but relatable protagonist who Tarris says is “a representation of sometimes what happens when we go dark.”
Publisher: Kensington