Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent.

The author of the Lambda Award-winning Love Cake, Dirty River, Bodymap and Consensual Genocide and co-editor with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her writings on femme of color and Sri Lankan identities, survivorhood, and healing, disability and transformative justice have appeared in the anthologies Octavia's Brood, Dear Sister, Letters Lived, Undoing Border Imperialism, Stay Solid, Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World.

For the rest of her bio, and more info on her published works and blog, please visit:
http://www.brownstargirl.org/


Events:

12:00-2:00pm Queer and Trans* Womxn's Lunch

RSVP for lunch, which is a closed a event at: http://tinyurl.com/oahfh3x

3:00-5:00pm Intersections- Writing Workshop

5:30-6:30pm Dinner (Location TBD)

7:00-8:30pm Book Reading, Talk, and Book Signing

Leah will be reading from and promoting her latest book,
Dirty River:

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."
http://www.brownstargirl.org/books.html

Dirty River will be available for purchase at the UCLA book store soon.

Please stay tuned for details.