Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a writer, poet, and disability justice organizer. Their work examines how disabled, queer, and racialized communities build collective infrastructures of care outside and against institutional frameworks.
Core ideas
- Care webs: in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018), Piepzna-Samarasinha describes how disabled communities create mutual networks of care — planned, collective infrastructures rather than reactive individual survivalism.
- Collective access: access as something communities build together through ongoing relationship, not something institutions provide through compliance checklists.
Notable works
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)
- The Future Is Disabled (2022)