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Dirty River
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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In 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. Through it all, she works her way through the personal and the political of intersectionality as she comes to identify as a mixed-race person and queer femme of colour, as a disabled person grappling with chronic illness (she has suffered from fibromyalgia since 1998) and as an abuse survivor. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares.
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ladyneverwhere
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Just got these 5 books in a personalized book bundle from the New York Public Library. I've never heard of any of them and cannot wait to get started reading!

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Mimi28
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#JuneTunz #IKissedAGirl Here is my pick for today's prompt. I coincidentally picked it up at the library yesterday. It's a really great book that I can't wait to get into. Thanks for picking my prompt @Cinfhen !!! ❤️❤️📚📚

Bibliogeekery Great choice! #queerbooks 7y
Cinfhen Great suggestion for today 💕😎🎵both book & song! 7y
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LindsayReads
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Happy, happy #NationalComingOutDay to all my friends and human beings! I loved this #queer #memoir for its frankness and punk Canadian sense of place. #memorablememoirs #booktober

read_diverse_books Oh, thanks for reminding me that I need to buy this book! 7y
LindsayReads @read_diverse_books Happy to help 😎 7y
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Tehfraga
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This book is so amazing. So powerful. So raw. And so beautiful. I love it so much and I feel blessed and honored to have been able to read it. Leah is such an amazing writer and person and I cannot say enough good things about her and about this book!!!

mhippo I put a hold on this at the library the other day.. Can't wait till it arrives! 8y
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Sunny
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It's been a hard week for queer folks of color & trans women of color. I'm also mourning fresh for the 9 black folks killed last yr in Charleston. In all this pain, I'm trying to dream my way home. Leah's book is a queer woman of color survivor's memoir.

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scott.neigh
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Just about to crack open some radical memoir...

Tehfraga So. Good!!! 8y
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Lindy
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Once upon a time a queer femme of colour ran away to find freedom. She found it by creating a home and an identity. This is her story, poetic and honest. #queerbooks

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Lindy
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I realize how much it is branded in my heart, that to be happy, alone, and childless is a fucking gift that most women get brainwashed into relinquishing.

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Lindy
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"I got on the Greyhound to Toronto at Port Authority in New York when I was 21, with two backpacks, a tight black vintage slip and a pair of 14-hole Docs. That was it. You only need one outfit if it's fabulous."

alisonrose Those are amazing 8y
Lindy Thanks! Not 14-hole Docs, but I love my Fluvogs. @alisonrose 8y
sara.sassafras I love them. I want a pair! 8y
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Lindy
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Preface

Let's get something straight: surviving abuse as a choose-your-own-adventure novel.

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Lindy
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How it starts is: I'm supposed to go on an anarchist vacation, but my boyfriend doesn't show up. So I go by myself and I don't come back.

Marla Wow that is a start that will grab you. If I ever write my book the first line will be "Did I ever tell you about the time I died?" 8y
Lindy Piepzna-Samarasinha is a genius with her first lines. I want to share from every chapter! 8y
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