
“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Season 3 Episode 341 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled?
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a writer and disability and transformative justice movement, worker speaks with Laura about her newly-released book of essays, The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs. The book documents two years of “disabled” isolation. Among the grief and despair came organizing from the Disability Justice movement and we should all take notice.
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“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Season 3 Episode 341 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a writer and disability and transformative justice movement, worker speaks with Laura about her newly-released book of essays, The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs. The book documents two years of “disabled” isolation. Among the grief and despair came organizing from the Disability Justice movement and we should all take notice.
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