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Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:00pm
Multicultural Resource Center
516A Eshleman Hall
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her first book, Consensual Genocide, was published by TSAR Books in April 2006. She is the 2009-2010 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's June Jordan's Poetry for the People, the co-founder and artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists, and a 2009 performer with Sins Invalid, the queer disability cabaret. Her work has recently appeared in Visible: A Femmethology, Yes Means Yes and We Don't Need Another Wave. She believes in the power of the written and spoken word to heal, decolonize and change the world.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies,
the Beatrice Bain Research Group and the Center for Race and Gender.
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