“This is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who always saves our lives, always steals us back to ourselves, always insists on the gritty everyday of survival.” -Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
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Johanna Hedva
“Leah is our most fearless chronicler of crip life, which means they’ve got one of the biggest hearts alive in a body that also wields the fiercest pen. Their work has been a lodestar for so many of us who have had our hearts broken by ableism’s insidious and rampant effects, and this book is […]
M Téllez
“Required reading for everyone living in a body.”- M Téllez
In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination
On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the first ban of gender affirming care for trans adults. This order is a perfect storm, a convergence of anti-trans hate and medical ableism that leaves […]
Living Altars: Disabled QTBIPOC Writers Transforming Pandemic Grief
National Queer Arts Festival June 15 2022
I curated and produced this show for NQAF’s 25th anniversary festival. With work by Meliza Bañales aka Missy Fuego, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, Juba Kalamka, Naima Lowe, Lucia Leandro “LL” Gimeno, Stacey Park Milbern.
gender reveal podcast
https://gender.libsyn.com/episode-129-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha with captions and my own current definition to the age old question “what is femme?”
KUOW convo with Shayda Kaftai and me about Crip Kinship. 1/26/22
“warning: this conversation contains explicit language” snort. https://www.kuow.org/stories/defining-and-celebrating-disability-justice-and-crip-centric-liberated-zones
“adaptive joy” from Orion Magazine’s fall 2021 disability issue.
split this rock “the future lives in our bodies: a Disability Justice & poetry roundtable
with me, Naomi Ortiz, Meg Day and Camisha Jones. June 2022.
The Future Lives In Our Bodies” reading and discussion March 13, 2022
Lambda, w/ Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Travis Chi Wing Lau and Meg Day. Captioned and w ASL.
poets.org disabled/Deaf poetry folio, curated by me
it’s here . published 3/22, as part of Poets.org’s The Future Lives In Our Bodies poetry of disability justice 2022 intitiative, and containing work by Raymond Antrobus, Jody Chan, Meg Day, Qwo-Li Driskill, torrin a. greathouse, Camisha Jones, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Aurora Levins Morales, and Audre Lorde. my intro: “The poems in this folio are […]
“There are disabled people in the future”: Interview with me in Briarpatch’s Disability Justice issue, September 2022
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/there-are-disabled-people-in-the-future this is a gorgeous interview with me by Rachel Jobson, with plain language translation, that appeared in this Canadian left/ labour magazine’s DJ issue. check it out!