Love Cake

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Sri Lankan authors, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Sri Lankan Poets, LGBTQ poetry, Poetry, LGBTQ authors

Description: In<em> Love Cake</em>, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka's civil war, <em>Love Cake</em> documents the persistence of survival and beauty — especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of colour's lives. Piepzna-Samarasinha maps the complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse, examines a family history of violence with compassion, and celebrates the beautiful resistance of queer people of colour in love and home-making.