Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Synopsis: 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. 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."Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781551526010
Related ISBNs:: 9781551526003
Publisher:: Arsenal Pulp Press
Date of Addition:: 12/22/15
Copyrighted By:: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
Submitted By:: N/A
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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