I’m excited to share the next book we will be reading for the Peer Book Club I co-facilitate with PeerWorks — Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha!

The Peer Book Club will meet every two weeks over Zoom, on Mondays from 6:00-7:30pm (Eastern Time). Our first meeting will be on March 24, where we will be discussing the preface. You can register for the book club on the PeerWorks website, and view the reading schedule here.

The book is available for purchase directly from the publisher’s website, which you can also use to find a local bookstore that carries it. It’s also available on Indigo and Amazon.

The Peer Book Club emerged from a desire for more opportunities to engage with literature about peer support, mutual aid, and social movements. We aim to foster a relaxed environment for discussion, with a focus on literature that is accessible and relevant to a wide range of audiences. No pressure to show up every time, or always have the reading done in advance!

You might be interested in joining if you are: 

• A peer supporter, peer worker, or lived experience worker
• A Mad / disability studies scholar
• An activist, social justice, or cultural worker
• Engaged in work related to peerness
• Someone with experiences of distress, extreme states, and/or navigating the mental health system
• Interested in learning more!

About the Book: Care Work (2018) is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of colour are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.