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ISBN: 9781551527574
Year: 2019
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Description:
In their
fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer
brown femme survivorhood and desire.Tonguebreaker
is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides
of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through
your beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on her
groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of
disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on
the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland,the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme
futures where we live — a ritual for our collective continued survival.
ISBN: 9781551527574
Year: 2019
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Description:
In their
fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer
brown femme survivorhood and desire.Tonguebreaker
is about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicides
of queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking through
your beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on her
groundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of
disabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments on
the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland,the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme
futures where we live — a ritual for our collective continued survival.