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Dirty River

A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
By:Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher:Arsenal Pulp Press
Print ISBN:9781551526003
eText ISBN:9781551526010
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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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