Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer, sick, and disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger / Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. The author of Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide, she is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, and her work has been widely published. From 2006 to 2016, she co-founded and co-directed Mangos With Chili, North America's longest running queer and trans people of color performance art tour, and co-founded Toronto's Asian Arts Freedom School and PDA (Performance/Disability/Art). Primarily, she is a weirdo who writes about survivorhood, disability justice, transformative justice, queer femme of color lives, and Sri Lankan diaspora sitting in her room.