Tag: Immigration

• ‘Dirty River’- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

  In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in…

  The Disability Archives

  1st Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Autism, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Fibromyalgia, Genre, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Misc, Neurodivergent, Non-Fiction, P, Queer, S

  Autism, Canada, Chronic Illness, Disability Culture, Fibromyalgia, Immigration, LGBTQ+, Memoir, Neurodivergence, Non-Fiction, POC, Queer, Social Issues, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA