Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) details, through a series of essays, the disabled queer community's knack for finding "ways to keep each other alive when the state is fucked, and community is fucked and inadequate too" (63). From care webs to mutual aid to political organizing, Piepzna-Samarasinha both champions and advocates for a care-taking by and for the communities it aims to serve, one that fosters self-determination, legibility, and resiliency. This panel invites proposals that center in their research and analysis the doing of queer and queer crip care work. This may include examples of mutual aid in fictional representations of these communities or the real-life manifestations in popular culture, communities, and classrooms. This panel is particularly interested in exploring how care work continues to be radicalized by and for the queer and queer crip communities to meet their unique and ever-evolving needs.
This panel invites proposals that center in their research and analysis the doing of queer and queer crip care work as described by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018). This may include examples of mutual aid in fictional representations of these communities or the real-life manifestations in popular culture, communities, and classrooms. This panel is particularly interested in exploring how care work continues to be radicalized by and for the queer and queer crip communities to meet their unique and ever-evolving needs.