<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for piepzna-samarasinha leah lakshmi]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for piepzna-samarasinha leah lakshmi]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hpl/rss/search?query=piepzna-samarasinha%20leah%20lakshmi&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=did-you-mean&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:59:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Disabled]]></title><description><![CDATA["An essay collection that expands on Leah's bestselling book Care Work, centring and uplifting disability justice and care in the pandemic era. In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled--and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of her game-changing book, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other--and the rest of the world--alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honour songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C775116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C775116</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/775116125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551528915/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Disabled]]></title><description><![CDATA[�aIn The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? 
 Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. 
 Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future. 
 This updated edition includes a new chapter and afterword by the author.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812110</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/812110125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551528922/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Disabled]]></title><description><![CDATA[In The Future Is Disabled , Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice , Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care, and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy. Written over the course of two years of disabled isolation during the pandemic, this is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honor songs for kin who are gone; recipes for survival; questions and real talk about care, organizing, disabled families, and kin networks and communities; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C1003235</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C1003235</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1003235125</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798765068175/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. 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 tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C1003234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C1003234</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1003234125</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Dreaming Disability Justice</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781618037268/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tonguebreaker]]></title><description><![CDATA["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. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on her groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live -- a ritual for our collective continued survival."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C775135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C775135</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/775135125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551527574/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care Work]]></title><description><![CDATA["Leah writes passionately and personally about disability justice, on subjects such as the creation of care webs, collective access, and radically accessible spaces. She also imparts her own survivor skills and wisdom based on her years of activist work, empowering the disabled--in particular, those in queer and/or BIPOC communities--and granting them the necessary tools by which they can imagine a future where no one is left behind. Presently, disability justice and emotional/care work are buzzwords on many people's lips, and the disabled and sick are discovering new ways to build power within themselves and each other; at the same time, those powers remain at risk in this fragile political climate in which we find ourselves. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms. "-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C464442</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C464442</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/464442125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Dreaming Disability Justice</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551527383/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirty River]]></title><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C323304</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C323304</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/323304125</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551526003/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tonguebreaker]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.  Tonguebreaker  is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's Queens neighborhood. Building on her groundbreaking work in  Bodymap ,  Tonguebreaker  is an unmitigated force of disabled queer-of-color nature, narrating disabled femme-of-color moments on the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we live&emdash;a ritual for our collective continued survival.    This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C811488</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C811488</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/811488125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551527581/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Way Disabled People Love Each Other]]></title><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C996903</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C996903</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/996903125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781834050317/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodymap]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. In this volume, Leah Lakshmi maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812087</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812087</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/812087125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781927494707/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirty River]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lambda Literary Award finalist   In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home."  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 's poetry book  Love Cake  won a Lambda Literary Award.   This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. 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 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 tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate,  Care Work  is a crucial and necessary call to arms.    This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.]]></description><link>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S125C812108</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://hpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/812108125</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Dreaming Disability Justice</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781551527390/MC.GIF&amp;client=hamip&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>