Prince, Chronic Pain, and Living to Get Old
From: Care Work
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The author asks and discusses the following question: “how…can [we] remake performance culture’s expectations and figure out our own disabled and chronically ill performance ideas that allow our bodyminds to thrive?”
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled nonbinary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Her books include the memoir Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, shortlisted for Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, and the poetry collections Body Map and Love Cake. A lead artist with the disability justice performance collective Sins Invalid, she teaches, performs, and lectures across North America. Raised in Worcester, MA, she divides her time between T'karonto and South Seattle.
