[Tsa] Leah Lakshmi Spoken Word Poetry Performance of Love Cake

[Rae Henaghan]

Monday, October 24 · 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159760694114314


In Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of
colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to
forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka's civil war, Love
Cake documents the persistence of survival and beauty—especially the dangerous
beauty found in queer people of colour's lives. Piepzna-Samarasinha maps the
complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse,
examines a family history of violence with compassion and celebrates the
beautiful resistance of queer of color love and home making.


Pushcart Prize nominee Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled Sri
Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide
and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence
in Activist Communities (South End, 2011), her work has appeared in the
anthologies Persistence: Still Butch and Femme, Yes Means Yes, Visible: A
Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest,
Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to
Taking Over The World. Her second book of poetry, Love Cake, is forthcoming in
fall 2011.