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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Consensual Genocide

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This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting...

This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history.

<p>Winner of the 2012 Lambda Literary Award, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, teacher and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan, Roma and Irish ascent. The author of <i>Bodymap</i>, <i>Love Cake</i> and <i>Consensual Genocide</i> and the co-editor of <i>The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities</i>, her writing has been widely anthologized. She is the co-founder of the queer people of colour arts incubator Mangos With Chili, a lead artist with Sins Invalid and co-founder of Toronto's Asian Arts Freedom School. In 2010 she was named one of the Feminist Press' 40 Feminists Under 40 Shaping the Future. Her first memoir, <i>Dirty River</i>, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2015.</p><br><br><br><i>This title is only available via back order</i><br>

Genre
Poetry
Pages
80
Publisher
Tsar Publications
ISBN
9781894770293

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