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Dirty River

Dirty River

A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Publication Date: 01/01/2016

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Lambda Literary Award finalist

In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home."

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award.

ISBN:
9781551526003
9781551526003
Category:
Gay & Lesbian studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
Country of origin:
Canada
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x139.95x13.21mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Lambda Literary Award-winning queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent.

Their previous books include Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, and they are co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement.

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