Sarah’s Reviews > Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice > Status Update

I resonated with the essay about femme care work. I’m not disabled and I’m white and straight so most of this book is learning from other perspectives for me, but in this one I saw myself.

I loved the part about bitterness and rage at people wanting access because no one ever gave you ancestors access. “But I believe our beloved dead want us to do more than life on one cracker and an inaccessible building, forever.”

It’s not about self care- it’s about collective care. Shifting our organizations to be ones where people feel fine if they get sick, cry, come late, have needs. Leaving no one behind.

Quoting another healer when she says “if we let ourselves be caught up in the discussion of self-care we are missing the whole point of healing justice work... too often self-care in our organizational culture gets translated to our individual responsibility... we do all that self care to return to organizational cultures where we reproduce the systems we are trying to break.”