Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of Queer and Trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them.
Her memoir Dirty River was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Publishing Triangle Award..
She is also co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement .
Her most recent titles are the nonfiction book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and the poetry book Tonguebreaker .
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent.
She\'s been published in Bitch, Slate, Gay Magazine, Truthout, and Autostraddle, and has self-produced many comics and zines.
About author(s): Syan Rose is an illustrator and comic artist whose Work plays with both surrealist and representational imagery to approach topics of personal history, politics, accountability, and healing.
Includes a foreword by Lambda Literary Award-winning author and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.
Our Work Is Everywhere is a graphic nonfiction book that underscores the brilliance and passion of Queer and Trans resistance.
Accompanying the narratives are Rose\'s startling and sinuous images that brings these leaders\' words to visual life.
The many themes include Black femme mental health, Pacific Islander authorship, fat Queer performance art, disability and healthcare practice, sex worker activism, and much more.
In their own words, Queer and Trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power, love, pain, and magic to create a textured and nuanced portrait of Queer and Trans realities in America.
Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, Queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real and imagined Queer and Trans communities.
Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of Queer and Trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them
