birth_date: 1975-04-21 00:00:00
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name: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
about: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Toronto and Oakland-based poet, writer, educator and social activist. Her 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.