Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...

LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA: I have been chronically ill since 1997. Could you talk about your process a bit, and the evolution of the work? This is the first book you’ve written in which you’ve incorporated talking about disability in a very central way. ’bodymap’ (excerpt) from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s BodymapĭEVYN MANIBO: In March, you released your newest book, Bodymap.

If we both have written maps to the stars

If you’re not, pick up a copy of Bodymap and cry a little maybe cry a lot. If you’re in the Bay, definitely check out that performance. Mangos With Chili’s final National Queer Arts Festival showcase happens June 25 at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco. On the agenda: the release of her latest poetry collection, Bodymap, and winding down queer and trans people of color cabaret group Mangos With Chili after nine years of work. Now, Leah’s moving into a transitional stage of her career and I had the privilege of talking with her about what’s new and what’s next. She’s a performer, writer, organizer, and one of many “justice squad” queens. Her poetry and performances explore everything from queer love and desire to healing, dis/ability, and survival. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.If you know anything about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, you probably know she’s a tough femme whose work spans a wide and ever-growing range of conversations, topics, feelings, and experiences. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. 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.' 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.

Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara...