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The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story.

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The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story.

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About Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) 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 concern of their work is the interconnection of systems of colonialism, abuse and violence. They are also a writer and organizer within the disability justice movement.
They are queer, non-binary, and disabled.