Dirty River

A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Lesbian, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
Cover of the book Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Arsenal Pulp Press
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Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ISBN: 9781551526010
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Publication: January 4, 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press Language: English
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN: 9781551526010
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication: January 4, 2016
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English

Lambda Literary Award finalist

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.

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Lambda Literary Award finalist

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.

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