Dirty river : a queer femme of color dreaming her way home
(Book)
Published
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2015].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
306.7663 Pie
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306.7663 Pie
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Published
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2015].
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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 color 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'"--,Page 4 of cover.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Lesbians -- Canada -- Biography.
Minority authors -- Canada -- Biography.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, -- 1975-
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Sexual minority community -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Sexual minority women -- Canada -- Biography.
South Asians -- Canada -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Lesbians -- Canada -- Biography.
Minority authors -- Canada -- Biography.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, -- 1975-
Poets, Canadian -- Biography.
Sexual minority community -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Sexual minority women -- Canada -- Biography.
South Asians -- Canada -- Biography.