In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning
poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her
excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and
desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving the unsurvivable:
living through hate crimes, the suicides of queer kin, and the rise
of fascism while falling in love and walking through your beloved's
Queens neighborhood. Building on her groundbreaking work in Bodymap,
Tonguebreaker is an unmitigated force of disabled
queer-of-color nature, narrating disabled femme-of-color moments on
the pulloff of the 80 in West Oakland, the street, and the bed.
Tonguebreaker dreams unafraid femme futures where we
live&emdash;a ritual for our collective continued survival.