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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

(1975) Journalist

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a journalist.

Quick Facts About Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Born: April 21, 1975
Profession: Journalist

About Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their 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 conce

Quotes by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started”

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Love

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“I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.”

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Friendship

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“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to…

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Healing

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“We're sistas. We treat each other like sistas. That's the blessin'. That's the problem. We come together cause we're both bein' fucked…

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Fall in love

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“Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair,…

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Nervous breakdown

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