{"product_id":"tonguebreaker-paperback","title":"Tonguebreaker - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eTonguebreaker\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBodymap\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTonguebreaker\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u0026amp;emdash;a ritual for our collective continued survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger\/Tamil, Sri Lankan, and Irish\/Roma ascent. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCare Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Bodymap, Love Cake, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConsensual Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e, and is co-editor (with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani) of \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities.\u003c\/i\u003e A lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid, she teaches, performs and lectures across North America. Raised in Worcester, MA, she divides her time between T'karonto and South Seattle, rooted in rust belt resilience, diasporic aerial roots and dirty water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771618722080,"sku":"9781551527574","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/21f914ee69b06fe6b60034583c36e3b4.webp?v=1780389698","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tonguebreaker-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}