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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
History & Commentary
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Canadian-American writer, educator, and activist whose work examines disability justice, collective access, and interconnected systems of violence.
Biography
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance document the experiences of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people, and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans. Their work examines connections among colonialism, abuse, and violence.
As a writer and organizer in the disability justice movement, Piepzna-Samarasinha draws on years of cultural and activist work. Their essays explore spaces created by and for sick and disabled queer people of color and approaches to access grounded in collective responsibility. They also address queer femme emotional labor, suicide in queer and trans communities, and touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of color.
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Books by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work
Care Work is an essay collection exploring disability justice and the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people. It examines collective access, queer femme emotional labor, suicide in queer and trans communities, and the practical realities of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of color.