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""Leah is our most fearless chronicler of crip life, which means they've got one of the biggest hearts alive in a body that also wields the fiercest pen. Their work has been a lodestar for so many of us who have had our hearts broken by ableism's insidious and rampant effects, and this book is yet another shining pinnacle to follow--arriving, as Leah often does, at exactly the right moment. Not only does Leah know the specific and abundant universe of this heartbreak in their bones, but they also know how to transmute that brokenness into image and story, action and catharsis, solidarity and legacy. This book is a major achievement, a document that shimmers with crip survival, grief, loss, pain, love, and life. We always say about Leah that their books are urgent, of this time and the necessities of the present--but for me they are at once an ancient soothsayer, a reporter from the front lines, and the one we'll be reading in 100 years. What can I say? They're the best of us."" --Johanna Hedva, author of How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom ""This is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who always saves our lives, always steals us back to ourselves, always insists on the gritty everyday of survival. But in this particular collection of elegies, laments, spells and witness is Leah at their most June Jordan, their most generous, offering the grieving heart our grieving hearts need."" --Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (they/them) is the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs; Tonguebreaker; Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (all Arsenal Pulp Press); and Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (AK Press), co-edited with Ejeris Dixon. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Cordova Award winner, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister, and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers. They live in Philadelphia, PA.

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