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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 16h

this is tomorrow at noon et as part of the show, some of my fav people, still time to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/to-disabil...

…. to disability justice now

…. to disability justice now: a conversation between Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Annanda DeSilva, Gem Hall and Wy Joung Kou

www.eventbrite.ca

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 16h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

"of people plugging in and going fast to get eSIMs out every time the IOF causes a communications blackout again....Palestinians in Gaza have not given up, and neither will we."

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

""If nothing else, the last two years have given us an opportunity to learn from Palestinian persistence and to marry it with our own Crip persistence that sometimes slugs forward like a snail, slow but steady, and sometimes leaps in a wild disabled network..." (cont)

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

tangledarts.org/whats-on/thi.... the show

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Opening performance Friday, September 19, 2025, and surprises! “dj art then/ before dj” “dj art now” panels. More details here aka I’m not dead, come see everything I’ve done in 30 years that wasn’t o...

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

Zoom one on one - iPad tour done by a staff member for one person or grouphttps://calendly.com/tangledarts/weekday-zoom-tour

Zoom Group tour - iPad tour open session on Saturday for a group calendly.com/tangledarts/...

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night (Zoom Group Tour) - Tangled Art + Disability

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 17h

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Aug 18

just want to say I appreciate this thread and thinking.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.democracynow.org/2025/7/23/se... go watch or read the transcript of this and watch these brave, beautiful, grieving Palestinian people crying and mourning their famillies while they are punished for attending a peaceful memorial for the dead. This is a struggle of life over death. Period.

Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest

Virginia Commonwealth University is withholding the diploma of a Palestinian American student because of her campus activism. In a hearing Tuesday, officials examined the case of VCU student Sereen Ha...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances."

Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

apnews.com

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you for @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for prompting me to spread the word and make this call. If you feel totally helpless to fight what is happening, I understand- and this is something you can do.

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... this title says it all

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

www.theguardian.com

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jul 11

wrote a thing again, about the Stacey residency's inaugural kickoff, slow time in the face of unrelented plutonium speed, and more. llps.substack.com/p/greeting-a...

greeting and salutations

from a rainy thunder day in detroit after six years away

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jun 26

"how to wear masks without breaking your hair, how to care for your family during a toxic air emergency and detox. In a world increasingly pushing people into isolation, the daily acts of getting people those things break isolation and are real acts of solidarity, relationship building, and love."

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Disability justice is not an academic or abstract framework or a bunch of empty statements. It is the real everyday work of getting our people (which includes us) what we need. That includes masks, information about what masks work on faces with broad nose bridges or big or small shapes...(cont)

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jun 26

real proud of this article Philly Breathes wrote for The Abolition Journal's Everyday Shit kickoff issue: "We take a special joy in talking to other Black & brown people about masking...People know us and say “hey” when we run into them.We're a small, disabled, multiracial group of everyday people.

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · May 31

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jun 26

abolitionjournal.com#everyday-act... "Generational Philadelphians already embody collective access.This is a city where many everyday people – not just middle class transplants–never stopped masking on SEPTA, where people are not surprised by systems breaking down.where people share what they have."

Abolition Journal | A Project of the W.E.B. Du Bois School for Abolition & Reconstruction

Abolition Journal is the publication platform of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. We study the world to change it.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Jun 18

Iranians struggle to flee Tehran amid Israeli strikes, bumper-to-bumper traffic and fuel shortages - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranians-flee-tehran-amid-israel-strikes-traffic-fuel-shortages

Iranians struggle to flee Tehran amid Israeli strikes, bumper-to-bumper traffic and fuel shortages

Many have also chosen to stay behind to help the elderly relatives as Israeli strikes pound residential areas

www.middleeasteye.net

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · Jun 18

Skrmetti is hideously evil I'd say check in on your trans friends but like frankly we're past give your trans friends money we're all the way out at if you want to help us we need you to be organizing a workers council

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · Jun 19

A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.

Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · Jun 19

Necessary context.

JK Rowling called our newspaper 'anti-woman'. Here's my response

THIS week JK Rowling launched an attack on The National, describing us as an "anti-woman newspaper" ...

www.thenational.scot

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · Jun 19

My new oped

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy

As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy

www.theguardian.com

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · Jun 19

Donors in the United States: use
Venmo (link in doc)
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR US-BASED DONORS:
Don't use [email protected] to send us Venmo or Zelle; only use the Venmo link above.

Donors in the UK: PayPal
Everywhere Else: Chuffed

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