The Hampshire College Performing Identity Series continues with:

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Love Cake: A Spoken Word Poetry Performance

Monday October 24th 7:00pm
Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College

In Love Cake, 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, Love Cake 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 of color love and home making.

SAME TIME, DIFFERENT PLACE …!

Food For Thought Books & UMass Stonewall Center present:

ORIGINAL PLUMBING #8: FAMILY MATTERS

Monday, Oct 24, 7:00pm
Food For Thought Books, Amherst, MA

Come celebrate the release of the newest Original Plumbing issue: Family Matters, #8!!! Join Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, co-editors of OP and all your loved ones at Food For Thought Books.

OP says: “Before the first issue of Original Plumbing even came out, a young single father contacted me asking me when we would make an issue celebrating and discussing trans families. It took a moment to work out all the details, but here we are, officially two years into creating OP, finally presenting to you: OP #8 “ FAMILY MATTERS.”