Consensual Genocide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781894770293)

This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history.

About the Author
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a US-raised, Toronto-based queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken-word artist and teacher. Her writing has been published in the anthologies Colonize This!, Dangerous Families, With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn, the Lambda Award-nominated Brazen Femme, Without a Net, Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws, and A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World. A frequent contributor to Colorlines and Bitch magazines, she has performed her work throughout the United States and Canada, from gigs at Yale University, Oberlin College, Louder Arts and The Loft to benefits for queer youth resource centres and in front of picket lines and antiwar protests. She believes in the power of creativity to empower, heal and decolonize, by any means necessary.