Posted October 22, 2017 by Alice Wong Podcast

Ep 6: Labor, Care Work, and Disabled Queer Femmes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS

Today’s episode is on labor, care work, and disabled queer femmes. Writer and cultural worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and social justice activist Stacey Milbern join Alice in a conversation about emotional and other forms of labor performed by disabled people and the crip wealth we generate as a community for one another.

Transcript

[Google doc] [PDF]

About

Image description: Leah, a light brown skinned femme in her early 40s, faces the camera with her hand on her right hip. She wears big oversigned vintage sunglasses with rhinestones, a blue t shirt that says "Get Ready, Stay Ready" in yellow lettering, and a black leather skirt. She has hot magenta lipstick, brown and green curly hair that is shaved on one side, and one large round earring with an image of Frida Kahlo is visible on her right side. — Image description: Leah, a light brown skinned femme in her early 40s, faces the camera with her hand on her right hip. She wears big oversigned vintage sunglasses with rhinestones, a blue t shirt that says “Get Ready, Stay Ready” in yellow lettering, and a black leather skirt. She has hot magenta lipstick, brown and green curly hair that is shaved on one side, and one large round earring with an image of Frida Kahlo is visible on her right side.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/ Roma ascent. The author of Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Bodymap, Love Cake and Consensual Genocide, she is also, with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Her work has been widely published, most recently in The Deaf Poets Society, Glitter and Grit and Octavia’s Brood. Currently a lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid, she teaches, performs and lectures across North America. Leah co-founded and co-directed Mangos With Chili, North America’s longest running queer and trans people of color performance art tour, from 2005-1015, and co founded Toronto’ Asian Arts Freedom School.

Website: http://www.brownstargirl.org/

Twitter: @brownstargirl

Image description: photo of Stacey in her garden. She has short hair, is mixed race Asian American, and uses a power wheelchair. She is wearing a bright orange scarf and is surrounded by succulents.

Stacey Milbern is a social justice activist with 12 years experience organizing at the intersections of ability, queerness, and race. She currently works in the private sector doing HR/accommodations work, and also is on staff at Sins Invalid, a performance project led by disabled queer folks of color. She likes to roll deep with people she trusts, ferment beverages, and read YA.

Twitter: @CripChick

Support Disability Media and Culture

DONATE to the Disability Visibility Project®