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Dirty River

By Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

Dirty River Social Sciences

Dirty River

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- A memoir by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (last name pronounced "Pee-EPP-shnah, Suh-muh-ruh-SINGH-hah"), a poet/activist who is well regarded within queer, South Asian, and disabled communities. While she has written essays and contributed to anthologies, this is her first non-poetry book to be published. - Leah, who was raised in Worcester, MA, describes how she ran away from America in 1996 and ended up in Toronto, where she found herself amidst a community of anarchopunks intent on revolution. Throughout the book, she works her way through the personal and the political of intersectionality as she comes to identify as a queer femme of color, as a disabled person grappling with chronic illness (she has suffered from fibromyalgia since 1998), and as an abuse survivor. - The "dirty river" of the title refers to Blackstone River near Worcester, which is contaminated due to the numerous factories in the area; it is Leah's metaphor for how coming to terms with her own "contaminated" past and becoming (and embracing) the complex person she is - and all of us are. - The book's autobiographical structure brings to mind Audre Lorde's Zumi. - This book combines Arsenal's interest in LGBT literature (Amber Dawn, Ivan E. Coyote) with postcolonial literature (Vivek Shraya, Wayde Compton).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
237
Release Date:
2015-11-03
Publication Date:
2015-11-03
Publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
155152600X
ISBN13:
9781551526003
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
318 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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