{"product_id":"dirty-river-a-queer-femme-of-color-dreaming-her-way-home-9781551526003","title":"Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLambda Literary Award finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, \"dreams her way home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Memoir\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis memoir blends poetry and prose to chronicle a transformative journey across borders, identities, and communities. Piepzna-Samarasinha's narrative captures the raw reality of leaving behind trauma while building new communities in Canada's queer anarchopunk scene. The book addresses immigration experiences, disability justice, and the complexities of survival as a queer femme of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eLambda Literary Recognition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a Lambda Literary Award finalist, \u003ci\u003eDirty River\u003c\/i\u003e joins the ranks of significant LGBTQ+ literature that centers marginalized voices. The author's previous poetry collection \u003ci\u003eLove Cake\u003c\/i\u003e won a Lambda Literary Award, establishing her as an important voice in contemporary queer literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/b\u003e is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher\/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish\/Roma ascent. She is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eLove Cake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConsensual Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681128452370,"sku":"9781551526003","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cbda2781-4279-41a4-a05c-c92a11c3f923.jpg?v=1733949617","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dirty-river-a-queer-femme-of-color-dreaming-her-way-home-9781551526003","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}