06/03/2026
July is Disability Pride Month! Join me in reading this month's book pick by a Disabled author and support a Disabled-owned small business. I plan to ship Books/Gifts by June 20th so they arrive to you by July 1st for us to read together.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled
Lambda Award–winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha returns with their long-awaited fifth collection of poems, written over five years of pandemic lockdown, during which time they lost cherished friends and comrades and met their estranged parents' end of life.
The Way Disabled People Love Each Other is a fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other, in all our complexity. A book that will speak to any kind of griever, but particularly disabled QTBIPOC ones sitting with the endless mass grief and possibility of this time, and those with violent family from whom we still yearn to claw out beauty from the trauma rubble. It's a road map for survivors looking for something that's neither a happy Hollywood ending nor a transformative justice fairy tale—not the healing we wished for, but the healing we find anyway.
This collection is a rigorous, rueful documentation of a specific time of pandemic fascist grief and possibility. Brimming with odes, elegies, and mourning songs, these poems sparkle like switchblades and offer new possibilities for love, grief, and memory.
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