Dirty river : a queer femme of color dreaming her way home / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Dirty river : a queer femme of color dreaming her way home / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
By
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Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-
Publication Date
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2015
Publication Information
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Vancouver, B.C. : Arsenal Pulp Press,
Physical Description
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237 p.
Subject Term
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Poets, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities -- Canada.
Neurodiversity.
Social justice.
Sexual minorities -- Canada.
LGBTQ2 non-fiction.
Women authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.
Summary
:
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. 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 her way home.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781551526003
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 306.7663 P59 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | ADULT NFIC - BASEMENT | Adult Non-Fiction - Basement | 306.7663 P59 | Checked In |