
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
WRITER, DISABILITY/TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE WORKER

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent.
Praise for Tongue Breaker
Leah is a passionate healing cry in the wilderness of interlocking oppressions. And in these pages you will find the love, from a brown queer disabled femme epicenter of fight and faith, to get us through.
— Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Spill and M Archive: After the End of the World
Praise for Care Work
Page after page, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha documents the necessity, power, and sheer brilliance of disability justice. Be prepared for her words, stories, and political thinking to shake up what you know about care and access, revolutionary dreaming, and present-day resilience.”
― Eli Clare, author of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile