In theirfourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer LeahLakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queerbrown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreakeris about surviving the unsurvivable: living through hate crimes, the suicidesof queer kin, and the rise of fascism while falling in love and walking throughyour beloved's neighbourhood in Queens. Building on hergroundbreaking work in Bodymap, Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force ofdisabled queer-of-colour nature, narrating disabled femme-of-colour moments onthe pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed. Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femmefutures where we live - a ritual for our collective continued survival.
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