Keynote Speaker
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will be releasing a new book of poetry in March 2015. In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winning writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme of colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. The first book by the author to examine disability from a queer femme of color lens, Bodymap contains work created and performed with Sins Invalid. Bodymap maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.
