Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Toronto-based poet, writer, educator and social activist.
Her writing has been published in the anthologies Colonize This!, Dangerous Families, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, the Lambda Literary Award-nominated Brazen Femme, Without a Net, Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws and A Girl’s Guide To Taking Over the World.
As a spoken word artist she has performed in the United States and Canada, most notably for benefits for queer youth resource centers, queer Muslim conferences and at various antiwar protests.
Piepzna-Samarasinha teaches writing to LGBT youth at Supporting Our Youth Toronto (SOY), and is an organizer of the Asian Arts Freedom School, a writing, performance and activist education program for Asian/Pacific Islander youth.
In April 2006 Piepzna-Samarasinha published Consensual Genocide (TSAR Press), a poetry anthology.
