Ep 6: Labor, Care Work, and Disabled Queer Femmes
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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.
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Related Links
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (July 13, 2017). A Modest Proposal For A Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy (Centered By Disabled, Femme of Color, Working Class/Poor Genius). Bitch Media.
Stacey Milbern. (July 13, 2017). A Life of My Own Terms, Thanks to Medicaid. ACLU blog.
About

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

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
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Credits
Geraldine Ah-Sue, Audio Producer
Alice Wong, Writer, Producer, Interviewer
Cheryl Green, Text Transcript
Lateef McLeod, Introduction
Mike Mort, Artwork
Theme Music (used with permission of artist)
Song: “Dance Off”
Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp
Music
“Lightfeet” by Podington Bear (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License)
“Jetsam” by Podington Bear (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License)
“Depeche Mold” by Podington Bear (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License)
“Fits” by Podington Bear (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License)
“Bit Rio” by Podington Bear (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License)
Sounds
Crickets This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
“8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
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