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Suzette Partido has worked as a community developer and non-profit organizer for three decades. She trained as an AIDS chaplain, street outreach worker, substance abuse counselor, reproductive health educator, volunteer coordinator, and public speaker. She served a large urban liberal congregation for more than thirteen years and, before retiring, managed an HHSA community liaison for children's public behavioral health and served as the Director of Education for a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.She lives with her neurodivergent young adult son and her wife inside a ten-by-ten canvas tent in her mother's backyard in San Diego, CA.
""Love Will Save Us, Right? is a moving, authentic, engaging dive into the realities of parenting, loving and giving care at the end of capitalism. Suzette Partido's astute and inviting storytelling brings both a political lens and a sturdy tenderness to the project of family-making while queer, low-income, disabled.This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah.""—Michelle Tea, author of Valencia ""At times humorous or distressing or emotional, yet always grounded in compassion, Love Will Save Us, Right? is an engaging reflection on living and parenting through medical diagnoses, capitalism, and complicated family history.""—Tomas Moniz, author of All Friends Are Necessary ""This psychic love child of Anne Lamott and Dorothy Allison writes with the raw authenticity of someone who's seen behind the curtain and still refuses to give in to cynicism. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's broken promises while finding beauty in all the broken places.""—Ariel Gore, author of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer ""'It is the Ancestor's breath that pushes me forward. An artisanal cocktail of capital-L-love, made with equal parts superstition, sunrise, and sorrow . . . ' This passage made me put the book down and marvel at the quality of Southfox's writing. She navigates family, a neurospicy kid, and poverty with intelligence, snark, honesty, and love. In other news, come the Zombie Apocalypse, Suzette's team is the one you want to latch onto. Where you might feel like giving up, she and her family find a way.""—Meg Barnhouse, author of Seeds of a Spirited Life ""Suzette Partido holds an open-ended round trip ticket to Hell and back.Love Will Save Us, Right?is a feast for your heart and your brain and your preconceptions of what queer family life on the spectrum looks like. Like a blob of wasabi, you don't know whether to spit, savor, or swallow. Best not to overthink it and do all three. Partido's words draw you into a world inhabited by fallen angels, Sisyphus, and outside-the-box genius, with a firm grasp on her survival tools of humor and hope. And love. Always love.""—Eve Diana, contributor to The Complete Gay and Lesbian Parenting Guide
