Our guest, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, (she/they) is a queer disabled non-binary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/ Roma ascent. Her work has been widely published, most recently in The Deaf Poets Society [1], Glitter and Grit [2] and Octavia's Brood [3].  Her memoir, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home [4] was praised as a "gritty, glorious, multi-layered story of homecoming and self-healing."

Currently a lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid [5], she teaches, performs and lectures across North America.

Primarily, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha is a self-described weirdo who writes about survivorhood, disability justice, transformative justice, queer femme of color lives and Sri Lankan diaspora while sitting in her room.

Well. . . perhaps we will get some "weirdo" crip conversation when guest Leah Lakshmi teams up with Pushing Limits producer Eddie Ytuarte for this half hour interview.

[1] https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/

[2] http://www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/anthology/

[3] http://octaviasbrood.com

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-River-Queer-Femme-Dreaming/dp/155152600X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448401906&sr=8-1&keywords=Dirty+River%3A+A+Queer+Femme+of+Color+Dreaming+Her+Way+Home&tag=autowin-20

[5] http://www.sinsinvalid.org/