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Shuffled! is a weekly column appearing every Thursday here on BPRLive. Each week, we welcome a person from the APA community to share some thoughts about the music they listen to. Check out the Shuffled! archive for past articles.

Today’s Shuffler: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer mixed Sri Lankan high femme powerhouse. The author of Consensual Genocide, she’s toured North America and Sri Lanka multiple times on a shoestring. Her writing is published in (inhale) Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Homelands, Without a Net, Femme, Brazen Femme, Dangerous Famillies and A Girls’ Guide to Taking Over the World (basically if you took Intro to Women of Color Studies you’ve read her), and she writes for Bitch, Colorlines, Hyphen, Make/Shift and a bunch of other magazines.

She is the co-founder of the Mangos With Chili annual queer and trans people of color roving performance art roadshow and Toronto’s Asian Arts Freedom School. Her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, just had its Bay Area debut at the 2008 National Queer Arts Festival and will be produced by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center at SomArts for 2009. She is also the cofounder of The Femme Sharks, a bunch of loud femme queer girls of color who like to eat, scream loud, come hard and defend our communities. She is currently busy enjoying Oakland after running away from America, specifically Worcester, Mass, for a decade, and trying to finish her next two books despite the distractions of her new scraper trike with the speaker in the back.

Her websites are brownstargirl.com and myspace.com/leahlakshmi

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