Love Cake
Author | : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
Publisher | : Tsar Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 1894770692 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781894770699 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Poetry, 2012 Honourable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival, Poetry, 2012 In Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka's civil war, Love Cake documents the persistence of survival and beauty. It maps the complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse, examines a family history of violence with compassion, and celebrates the beautiful resistance of queer people of colour in love and home-making.