{"product_id":"impact-statement-9781771316255","title":"Impact Statement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court documents, Jody Chan's \u003ci\u003eimpact statement\u003c\/i\u003e traces a history of psychiatric institutions within a settler colonial state. These poems bring the reader into the present moment of the \u003ci\u003eDiagnostic and Statistical Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, capitalism and ?money models of madness,\" and ?wellness? checks. Forming a ghost chorus, they sing an impact statement on migration and intergenerational trauma, gentrification, and police neglect of racialized violence against queer communities in Toronto?and how the ?wrong? kinds of desire, be it across class, race, or gender lines, or towards other worlds, are often punished or disappeared. And yet, these poems also make space for what can take root, despite?care teams, collective grief rituals, dinners around a table with too many friends to fit?imagining, and re-imagining, and re-imagining again, a queer, disabled, abolitionist revolution towards our communal flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771316255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.75w x 0.44d","brand":"Jody Chan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43544111317173,"sku":"9781771316255","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bdd1ea4e-9866-4f24-a63d-862372c8884a.jpg?v=1706119129","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/impact-statement-9781771316255","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}