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BookstoreLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha release party for The Way Disabled People Love Each Other
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Celebrate survival at this book release for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's new poetry collection, a fierce reckoning with how disabled people love through grief and lockdown. Fellow poet Cyrée Jarelle Johnson joins at this beloved Bed-Stuy community bookstore.
Poetry reading
Disabled QTBIPOC authors
Social justice bookstore
Community gathering
Tips
😷masks required, bring your own
📚"fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other"
🏠intimate '70s-style community bookstore vibe
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha release party for The Way Disabled People Love Each Other
Bedford-Stuyvesant
BookstoreBookstoreCelebrate survival at this book release for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's new poetry collection, a fierce reckoning with how disabled people love through grief and lockdown. Fellow poet Cyrée Jarelle Johnson joins at this beloved Bed-Stuy community bookstore.
Poetry reading
Disabled QTBIPOC authors
Social justice bookstore
Community gathering
Tips
😷masks required, bring your own
📚"fierce crip reckoning with all the ways disabled people love each other"
🏠intimate '70s-style community bookstore vibe
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