11/4/2023 0 Comments Little nightmares chef x readerRanda Jarrar, author of A Map of Homeįierce and seductive. Intersectional and glittering and raw, this book has bite - it's a kind of primal yell for all us survivors of abuse, as we pull together and howl and love and live. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's newest book is the powerful, badass, and important story of a young queer femme of color's coming of age on her own terms. Piepzna-Samarasinha is particularly good at conveying what it is like to live in poverty and political enthusiasm in a marginalized subculture and generously invites the reader to participate in that experience. The authorial voice is propulsive, eloquent and absolutely persuasive. In rapid fire, intensely felt and perfectly controlled prose, the activist/poet/survivor evokes the terrors and pleasures of life in the pockets of counter culture, gender rebellion and anti-racist groups she found in Toronto and details her painful process of reflection and eventual self acceptance. Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories There is no syrup in this survivor's tale, yet the sun does shine through these shadows, making you cheer for the hero(ine) in her odyssey to know her true self. Lambda Literaryĭirty River is a candid and comic view from the tattooed underbelly of contemporary life. The Globe and Mailĭirty River goes above and beyond being a story of survival it is a manifesto for those of us who have also been walking, scantily clad, down dark alleys for most of our lives. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, co-editor of Revolutionary Motheringĭirty River is a biracial-abuse-survivor-queer-femme-working-class-immigrant-anarchist-punk bomb that explodes the myth of LGBT sameness. You are brave enough to face this honest, transformative work, because you are brave enough to be who you are. In the tradition of June Jordan's Soldier, Audre Lorde's Zami, Asha Bandele's Something Like Beautiful, and Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise, Dirty River is a memoir that will make you itch all over while you read it and emerge having shed another layer of internalized doubt. Every time I've heard them read, I've come away new."ĭirty River will give you back the life you stole and saved: your own. Their vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. "The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams their way home." They ended up in Toronto, where they were welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet they remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist A transformative memoir by a queer disabled person of colour and abuse survivor.
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