Tonguebreaker
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Tonguebreaker

poems and performance texts

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.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Her most recent titles are the nonfiction book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) and the poetry book Tonguebreaker (2019). Her memoir Dirty River was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award (Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction). She is also author of the poetry books Bodymap and Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America's touring queer and trans people of colour cabaret, and is a lead artist with the disability justice incubator Sins Invalid.
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Thanks and acknowledgments
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Femme futures — Crip fairy godmother — Riches: Oakland 2010-2013 — Femme houses — I know crips live here — Bad road — Bed days — Crip magic spells …
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 33 $3.30
Tonguebreaker: Taueret — Shark’s mouth — Parliaments on the stoop — This one broke my tongue — suicide contract — Tonguebreaker.
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Microaggression magic — Noet to Myself Six Months Ago, Or, Queer Brown Loive is a Magic Fuck Unicorn Worth Waiting For — boxcutter beloved — Prayer ghazal for Orlando — …
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Walking pneumonia: a working class sick femme prayer — Executive order 13769, January 27, 2017 — The stories you tell to save your life — Lightskinned for beginners — …
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introduction: qtpoc disabled ritual prayers — daughter of kali and oshun — the amethyst toom — a requiem for Gloria — crossing the river jordan: a lovesong for Marlon Riggs.
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 31 $3.10
Cripstory — Sri Lankan disabled futures 2017 — The burning house — Crip infinity — 3 crazy queens Litany.
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