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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-     Subjects     Minority lesbians -- Poetry.     Abused lesbians -- Poetry.     Abused women -- Poetry.     Racially mixed people -- Poetry.     Sri Lankans -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-       by title:      Consensual genocide ...       by call number:      811.6 P614c     Search the Web     Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-     Minority lesbians -- Poetry.     Abused lesbians -- Poetry.     Abused women -- Poetry.     Racially mixed people -- Poetry.     Sri Lankans -- Poetry.     Canadian poetry -- Women authors.     Canadian poetry -- 21st century.       MARC Display

Consensual genocide / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. by Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975- TSAR Publications, c2006. Call #: 811.6 P614c Subjects Minority lesbians -- Poetry.   Abused lesbians -- Poetry.   Abused women -- Poetry.   Racially mixed people -- Poetry.   Sri Lankans -- Poetry.   Canadian poetry -- Women authors.   Canadian poetry -- 21st century. ISBN:  1894770293 : Description:  72 p. ; 22 cm. Notes:  Poems. Summary:  Poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. 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 corssings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Poems which celebrate our survival and put our rebel memories into history. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, performer, healer and teacher of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a a Toronto and Oakland-based poet, writer, educator and social activist. Her writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans. A central concern of her work is the interconnection of systems of colonialism, abuse and violence. The author of the Lambda Award-winning Love Cake and Consensual Genocide and co-editor with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her writing on femme of color and Sri Lankan identities, survivorhood, and healing, disability and transformative justice has appeared in several anthologies. She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America's touring queer and trans people of color cabaret, a lead artist with the disability justice incubator 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 website is brownstargirl.org and her next book of poetry, Bodymap and first memoir, Dirty River, will be published in 2015. Genre:  Canadian poetry. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 811.6 P614c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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