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Top 20 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quotes (2024 Update)

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.”

1. “A Disability Justice framework understands that all bodies are unique and essential, that all bodies have strengths and needs that must be met.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “It’s not about self-care – it’s about collective care. Collective care means shifting our organizations to be ones where people feel fine if they get sick, cry, have needs, start late because the bus broke down, more slower, ones where there’s food at meetings, people work from home – and these aren’t things we apologize for.”

2. “It’s not about self-care – it’s about collective care. Collective care means shifting our organizations to be ones where people feel fine if they get sick, cry, have needs, start late because the bus broke down, more slower, ones where there’s food at meetings, people work from home – and these aren’t things we apologize for.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.”

3. “Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “If collective access is revolutionary love without charity, how do we learn to love each other? How do we learn to do this love work of collective care that lifts us instead of abandons us, that grapples with all the deep ways in which care is complicated?”

4. “If collective access is revolutionary love without charity, how do we learn to love each other? How do we learn to do this love work of collective care that lifts us instead of abandons us, that grapples with all the deep ways in which care is complicated?”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Disabled Cherokee scholar Qwo-Li Driskill has remarked that in precontact Cherokee, there are many words for people with different kinds of bodies, illnesses, and what would be seen as impairments; none of those words are negative or view those sick or disabled people as defective or not as good as normatively bodied people.”

5. “Disabled Cherokee scholar Qwo-Li Driskill has remarked that in precontact Cherokee, there are many words for people with different kinds of bodies, illnesses, and what would be seen as impairments; none of those words are negative or view those sick or disabled people as defective or not as good as normatively bodied people.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Too often self-care in our organizational cultures gets translated to our individual responsibility to leave work early, go home – alone – and go take a bath, go to the gym, eat some food and go to sleep. So we do all of that ‘self-care’ to return to organizational cultures where we reproduce the systems we are trying to break.”

6. “Too often self-care in our organizational cultures gets translated to our individual responsibility to leave work early, go home – alone – and go take a bath, go to the gym, eat some food and go to sleep. So we do all of that ‘self-care’ to return to organizational cultures where we reproduce the systems we are trying to break.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks – because they’re equally important and interdependent.”

7. “To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks – because they’re equally important and interdependent.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Is understanding that disabled people have a full-time job managing their disabilities and the medical-industrial complex and the world – so regular expectations about work, energy, and life can go right out the window.”

8. “Is understanding that disabled people have a full-time job managing their disabilities and the medical-industrial complex and the world – so regular expectations about work, energy, and life can go right out the window.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “People’s fear of accessing care didn’t come out of nowhere. It came out of generations and centuries where needed care meant being locked up, losing your human and civil rights, and being subject to abuse.”

9. “People’s fear of accessing care didn’t come out of nowhere. It came out of generations and centuries where needed care meant being locked up, losing your human and civil rights, and being subject to abuse.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “The Ugly Laws, on the books in the United States from the mid-1700s to the 1970s, stated that many disabled people were “too ugly” to be in public and legally prevented disabled people from being able to take up space in public.”

10. “The Ugly Laws, on the books in the United States from the mid-1700s to the 1970s, stated that many disabled people were “too ugly” to be in public and legally prevented disabled people from being able to take up space in public.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “In Loree’s care collective, her need for access is posited as something she both needs and deserves, and as a chance to build community, hang out with Loree, and have fun – not as a chore. This is drastically different from most ways care is thought of in the world, as an isolated, begrudgingly done task that is never a site of pleasure, joy, or community building.”

11. “In Loree’s care collective, her need for access is posited as something she both needs and deserves, and as a chance to build community, hang out with Loree, and have fun – not as a chore. This is drastically different from most ways care is thought of in the world, as an isolated, begrudgingly done task that is never a site of pleasure, joy, or community building.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn’t me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allowed me to finally write from a disabled space, for and about sick and disabled people, including myself, without feeling like I was writing about boring, private things that no one would understand.”

12. “Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn’t me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allowed me to finally write from a disabled space, for and about sick and disabled people, including myself, without feeling like I was writing about boring, private things that no one would understand.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “The making of disability justice lives in the realm of thinking and talking and knowledge making, in art and sky. But it also lives in how to rent an accessible porta potty for an accessible-except-the-bathroom event space, how to mix coconut oil and aloe to make a fragrance-free hair lotion that works for curly and kinky BIPOC hair, how to learn to care for each other when everyone is sick, tired, crazy, and brilliant. And neither is possible without the other.”

13. “The making of disability justice lives in the realm of thinking and talking and knowledge making, in art and sky. But it also lives in how to rent an accessible porta potty for an accessible-except-the-bathroom event space, how to mix coconut oil and aloe to make a fragrance-free hair lotion that works for curly and kinky BIPOC hair, how to learn to care for each other when everyone is sick, tired, crazy, and brilliant. And neither is possible without the other.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “As oppressed people, we don’t control a lot of things. But one thing we can sometimes control is the stage. The stage can be prefigurative politics.”

14. “As oppressed people, we don’t control a lot of things. But one thing we can sometimes control is the stage. The stage can be prefigurative politics.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “But our focus is less on civil rights legislation as the only solution to ableism and more on a vision of liberation that understands that the state was built on racist, colonialist ableism and will not save us, because it was created to kill us.”

15. “But our focus is less on civil rights legislation as the only solution to ableism and more on a vision of liberation that understands that the state was built on racist, colonialist ableism and will not save us, because it was created to kill us.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Me home, the weird older daughter, back in my room. Hanging out with my mother. Taking care of my mother. Bargaining for an evening out now and then. Still no driver’s license. Never leaving. It would be like when I was sixteen, insisting that I was an adult, except that I wasn’t, in some ways. Was I an adult? Or was I something else? Would I ever grow up?”

16. “Me home, the weird older daughter, back in my room. Hanging out with my mother. Taking care of my mother. Bargaining for an evening out now and then. Still no driver’s license. Never leaving. It would be like when I was sixteen, insisting that I was an adult, except that I wasn’t, in some ways. Was I an adult? Or was I something else? Would I ever grow up?”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it’s also a choose-your-own-adventure story.”

17. “The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it’s also a choose-your-own-adventure story.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “And somewhere in that sweaty brown hot box of brown gay, I found myself.”

18. “And somewhere in that sweaty brown hot box of brown gay, I found myself.”

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “For years I thought, a femme bottom – what is more common, what is more despised? Than a girl with her legs open. Wanting something. Just wanting. I didn’t come up with this idea on my own. The whole world told me it was true. The whole world told me that there is nothing more common and stupid than someone feminine of center with their legs open, wanting something more than a kick or a curse.”

19. “For years I thought, a femme bottom – what is more common, what is more despised? Than a girl with her legs open. Wanting something. Just wanting. I didn’t come up with this idea on my own. The whole world told me it was true. The whole world told me that there is nothing more common and stupid than someone feminine of center with their legs open, wanting something more than a kick or a curse.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “I don’t want to be fixed, if being fixed means being bleached of memory, untaught by what I have learned through this miracle of surviving. My survivorhood is not an individual problem. I want the communion of all of us who have survived, and the knowledge.”

20. “I don’t want to be fixed, if being fixed means being bleached of memory, untaught by what I have learned through this miracle of surviving. My survivorhood is not an individual problem. I want the communion of all of us who have survived, and the knowledge.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Quote: “Understanding that it’s a sacred task to not shame each other for being in bed in a world where completing the Ironman or going to Zumba is shoved down everyone’s throats with no understanding of how “healthy” can hurt.”

21. “Understanding that it’s a sacred task to not shame each other for being in bed in a world where completing the Ironman or going to Zumba is shoved down everyone’s throats with no understanding of how “healthy” can hurt.”

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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