Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a non-binary femme disabled writer of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician Romani ascent. They are the author or co-editor of nine books, including (with Ejeris Dixon) Beyond Survival, Tonguebreaker, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and Bodymap. A Lambda Award winner who has been shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle five times, they are the 2020 Jean Cordova Award winner “honoring a lifetime of work documenting the complexities of queer experience” and are a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow. Raised in rustbelt central Massachusetts and shaped by T’karonto, they currently make home in South Seattle, Duwamish territory.

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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