Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries.
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Tonguebreaker
Poems
In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire.
winter/spring 2020 events
Winter/ Spring 2020 events so far Wednesday, January 29th: Bay Area Launch, Beyond Survival Pegasus Berkeley (the one on Shattuck) Saturday, February 1, LA Launch, Beyond Survival, Skylight Books Wednesday, February 5, Seattle Launch, Beyond Survival, Seattle Public Library, March 5: AWP, San Antonio TX March 23: Toronto Launch, Beyond Survival, Gladstone Hotel, produced by […]
cover femme at Herizons
Care As Pleasure
Yes Magazine (from Pleasure Activism)
Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living
Vice
Care Work on Broadly’s 10 Best Books of 2018
Becoming a Map for Survival: Interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in Guernica
Fall 2019 events
September 24-25, University of Toledo September 26-27, Denison University, Denison OH September 28, Lambda Literary Festival, Los Angeles CA October 21, in QUEERy keynote, Washington State University, Pullman, WA October 24, LitCrawl Seattle (tbc) October 28, Grand Valley State University November 7-10, ASA, Honolulu Ha’waii November 19, University of Illinois-Chicago November 20-21, McGill University, Montreal […]
Amber Dawn
“Dominant culture dresses survivors in a thin costume of pitiful heroism, often reducing intersectional identities and diversity of healing strategies. But Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha knows the multifarious textures of survivor skins… Her desire penetrates far deeper than reductive “happy endings.” And her memoir will surely become a lasting body of wisdom for anyone who yearns […]
From Manjeet Birk, Herizons
“(Dirty River) serves as a queer, disabled, punk of color manifesto that forces readers to open doors and go to places that have long been shut tight… If you are looking for an incredible book that is unlike anything else you have ever read, pick up Dirty River. You can thank me later.” — Manjeet […]
From Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Deaf Poets Society
“(Leah’s work) paints a portrait of crippled body sovereignty in a world that would rather isolate us until we disappear.” — Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Deaf Poets Society