.top-header{ transform: scale(0.5); transform-origin: top left; width: 200%; } Unstable Installation Series: Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (2018) ‘Care webs: Experiments in creating collective access’, in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (2018) ‘Care webs: Experiments in creating collective access’, in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice argues that care should be understood not as an individual burden, charitable obligation or private failure, but as a collective political practice central to disability justice. In the chapter “Care Webs: Experiments in Creating Collective Access”, the author foregrounds sick, disabled, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities who create autonomous networks of support outside, or alongside, the state, biological family and professionalised care systems. The text challenges dominant models of care that often involve control, institutionalisation, abuse, racism, ableism and dependency, proposing instead collective access, mutual aid and interdependence as liberatory alternatives. Through examples such as Loree Erickson’s care collective, Creating Collective Access in Detroit and the Bay Area, and the online group Sick and Disabled Queers, Piepzna-Samarasinha shows how disabled people build survival infrastructures through rides, food, medicine-sharing, access planning, emotional support, fundraising and crisis care. The chapter is powerful because it refuses romantic simplification: community care can be joyful and transformative, but it can also reproduce burnout, gendered labour, racial inequality and uneven access to support. The author insists that disability justice must centre sustainability, consent, dignity, autonomy and the leadership of those most marginalised by ableist systems. Ultimately, the chapter presents care as revolutionary world-making: a practice through which disabled communities keep one another alive while imagining futures beyond abandonment, charity and state violence.