“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.
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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.” — […]
10 Queer Women and Non-binary People of Color Using Media & Art to Get Free
The Body is Not an Apology
I Help Manage My Chronic Illness With My Diet, but Don’t You Dare Call It ‘Clean Eating’
Self Magazine
Crip Lit: Towards an Intersectional Queer Disabled Syllabus
Autostraddle
Imagine Otherwise: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Disability Justice (part 2)
Imagine Otherwise: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Radical Memoir (part 1)
Keynote: Take Back the Night, U Penn
April 4, 2018
UPenn, Philadelphia, PA
Keynote Performance: Femmes and Pop Culture Conference, NAU
March 31, 2018
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
Keynote: Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis and Clark University, Portland OR
Friday March 9, 2018
Transformative Justice Is Not A Magic Unicorn, But It Might Still Save Your Life
all the femmes come back
Femmescapes Volume 3
Keynote and Workshop at CSU Dominguez Hills 5th Annual Feminist Conference
March 1, 2018
5th Annual Women’s Conference
Women’s Resource Center, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA