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Fragrance free femme of colour genius
a long beloved resource! and, the update in progress for 2018
Edit for 8/13/24: Hi there. WordPress did something awful and the whole piece got deleted. Please hold as I’m trying to restore it- Leah. Brief update: I found an older version of the piece and it’s been cut and pasted in below. However, please note: this is a 14 year old document that is very […]
The Truth About College Gigs
How to get paid, have a blast and not get screwed over while writing, performing, teaching or lecturing on campus.
A toolkit zine packed with stories, tips and experience about how to book gigs, negotiate money and contracts, promote yourself, set boundaries, make sure you get paid and take care of yourself on the road.
To Survive The Trumpocalype, We Need Wild Disability Justice Dreams
Truth Out
Poetry and the Body curated by Meg Day
Poets.org
From Bitch
“Piepzna-Samarasinha offers us a collective roadmap for living untamed, uncategorizable lives.” — Bitch Media
Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice
Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a toolkit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient communities of liberation where no one is left behind.
Femme Shark Manifesto!
something I wrote while avoiding grad school homework in 2008 that had quite the impact
FEMME SHARKS DON’T EAT OUR OWN.
Care Work in the Apocalypse Tour
Fall 2018
What the hell is disability justice? How do collective care, disability justice and sick and disabled Black and brown femmes save the world and each other during this time of fascist repression- or do we? What are the histories and present-day struggles and triumphs of disabled Black and brown queers in our communities? Come discuss […]
From Qwo-Li Driskill
“Leah’s poems are rebel songs and love songs that bear witness and fight back – as miraculous, as mean, as stunning as every queer brown girl who survives.” — Qwo-Li Driskill, author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems
From Allison McCarthy, Bitch Magazine
“With memorable references to Cherrie Moraga, bell hooks and Sonia Sanchez… Piepzna-Samarasinha’s writing should be shelved right beside them.” — Allison McCarthy, Bitch Magazine.
From Wendy Elisheva Somerson, Tikkun
“Once I picked up Love Cake, I could not put it down until I finished every poem, even though I sometimes had to read through my tears… The gift of this poetry collection is nothing less than a roadmap to what liberation can look like for queer people who survive personal and collective trauma.” — […]