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

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by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Arsenal Pulp Press 11/3/2015, paperback SKU: 9781551526003 In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpac ks 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." About the Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. She is also the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home. Show more