{"content":[{"text":"you been reading? What have you been thinking about? It’s been so long since we’ve talked \n and nerded out over books together.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.090652,"width":0.7319169999999999,"height":0.034448999999999994}},{"text":"Monica​: I know! It’s kind of funny that we have this podcast on books and how they help people \n grow in their politics, and we never get to talk about these books amongst ourselves that we’re \n currently reading that are giving us hope and space for critical thinking in our movement work.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.146266,"width":0.758807,"height":0.05175099999999999}},{"text":"So, currently, I am finishing up reading ​Care Work​ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who \n is a queer disabled femme writer and organizer, and the book is all about the disability justice \n work that they’ve been part of, that they’ve helped to lead and just really striking interventions \n into ableist organizing culture.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.219182,"width":0.7627269999999999,"height":0.070691}},{"text":"And the book is just so full of gems, Page, I cannot tell you how critical and how much thought \n was put into this book. Leah wrote this book from bed, and that’s just one fact I love about it. \n Cause working from bed is so legit, speaking as someone who has a lot of body pain a lot of the \n time. And then, it just really goes into detail on disability justice organizing history, the \n importance of slowness, messiness, and long-term sustainability work as praxis for not leaving \n anyone behind, especially sick and disabled queer and trans people of color. And, and, just also \n exploring how hard the work is, like how haaaard it is, especially with people that we are \n organizing with with shared identities and experiences, because this book is really by and for \n the sick and disabled people of color community.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.311296,"width":0.7617970000000001,"height":0.16228899999999996}},{"text":"There’s this quote she said in this book that is sticking with me, and I wanna share it. They said \n “and it turned out that like every time I’ve come together with people I’ve shared an identity with, \n there was bliss and also heartbreak when we assumed that the bliss would be easy forever.” \n And that quote is just really making me think about, so much about a lot of the work I’m doing \n and what it means to be in struggle together as people with shared identities. So that’s one thing \n I’m thinking about.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.495008,"width":0.7638310000000001,"height":0.10736500000000004}},{"text":"And lastly, the book is really making me think about what can mutual aid work that we were all \n doing this past year, you know, what can that work learn from the disability justice movement, as \n in, I hope all of this resource distribution work doesn’t stop when the pandemic is over, because \n this is work that should be built into our movement work, like, by default. so I’m just feeling a lot \n of affirmation in this text, and a lot of things are coming up for me around the ways that I operate \n as organizer. So, yeah. But what about you Page? What are you reading that’s giving you life \n right now?","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.623796,"width":0.7647079999999999,"height":0.12535799999999997}},{"text":"Page​: Mmm, I mean that quote, is like, yeah, that’s so good. I’m thinking, it’s making me think of \n other books! I’ve been reading a bunch of things at once and I’m not gonna talk about all of \n them, but I will give a quick shoutout to ​Undrowned​ by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, talking about \n these dolphins that tend to click up and have these similar scars, and how we can find sort of a \n metaphor in that about the ways that we come together around similar harms that we maybe \n have experienced, and similar wounds, and what that means in terms of how we make bliss and \n how we struggle together. Yeah. Shoutout to that book!","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.770319,"width":0.7617530000000001,"height":0.12561500000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}