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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Writer and disability justice organizer whose work on care webs and collective access infrastructure challenges individualized models of disability accommodation.

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)

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  author    = {emsenn},
  title     = {Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Writer and disability justice organizer whose work on care webs and collective access infrastructure challenges individualized models of disability accommodation.},
  url       = {https://emsenn.net/library/general/domains/people/leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/},
  publisher = {emsenn.net},
  license   = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}