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DescriptionDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home  by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Author) {BinanGotit} Format: epub / mobi / pdf converted from epub Product Details Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (September 29th 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 155152600X ISBN-13: 978-1551526003 A transformative memoir by a queer disabled woman of colour and abuse survivor.Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist. In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." "The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Her vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I've heard her read, I've come away new." ― Tara Hardy About the Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. The author of the acclaimed memoir Dirty River, the poetry books Love Map and Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her writing has been widely anthologized She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America's touring queer and trans people of colour cabaret, and is a lead artist with the disability justice incubator Sins Invalid. Top Customer Reviews  Sharing Widget |