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# the future is disabled
- URL: https://www.creativeconnector.art/oct-4-the-future-is-disabled/
- Published: 2023-10-04T12:00:09.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-21T14:14:36.000Z
- Description: Everything has been different; everything has to be different; everything can be different.
- Author: Creative Connector
- Tags: Blog, Culture

**Today's read:**

I came across this great article on Briarpatch Magazine which came out a month before [Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha's](https://brownstargirl.org/?ref=creativeconnector.art) latest book: **The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs**. In it, Leah proposes a future where disabled people are recognized as crucial and critical to surviving climate change, global pandemics, and fascism. 

I confess I haven't read it but it's on my need-to-read book list and until then, I'll just keep reading other people's rave reviews about it!

> **Everything has been different; everything has to be different; everything can be different.**

[“There are disabled people in the future”An interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about “crip doulaing,” the future of the disability justice movement, and understanding access and care as joyful.![](https://briarpatchmagazine.com/favicon.ico)Briarpatch Magazine![](https://briarpatchmagazine.com/images/articles/_resized/Sonali_Menezes_care.jpg)](https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/there-are-disabled-people-in-the-future?ref=creativeconnector.art)

If you're interested there are lots of recordings on YouTube of Leah reading from their book. This one is especially personable and reflective (timestamp 4:30) of Leah reading poems and talking about disability in the context of climate change.

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