Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Date of Birth
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American writer
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About Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a Toronto and Oakland-based poet, writer, educator and social activist.
- Her writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
- A central concern of her work is the interconnection of systems of colonialism, abuse and violence. Comparing herself to climate activist Greta Thunberg, she has described herself as "an autistic femme."
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