Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer, The Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
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Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Enshittification is depressing
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Enshittification is depressing
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
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All the invisible projects we do 🌀 yay to those
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
All the invisible projects we do 🌀 yay to those
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a year and 11 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza ;-;
waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
a year and 11 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza ;-;
waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
Hey we the living: @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app has a fundraiser for some badly needed disability and getting out of hell needs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my... check it out and support if you can.
Donate to Support My Journey to Safety and Health, organized by Lenée A. Voss
Hi, I'm Lenée. I am an organizer and cultural worker. I need your help to get ou… Lenée A. Voss needs your support for Support My Journey to Safety and Health
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November 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Hey we the living: @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app has a fundraiser for some badly needed disability and getting out of hell needs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my... check it out and support if you can.
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
thank you and love you Steven. <3
Exemplifying the "yes, you can just do things" approach @prisonculture.bsky.social encourages, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and Alice Wong started Crips for Esims for Gaza. Unpaid, and w no formal organization, they've raised $3,000,000 US chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
thank you and love you Steven. <3
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
amazing essay the @georgiastraight.bsky.social did with @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social about Crips for E Sims- I think it's the biggest media coverage of our two year project and sums up well what the work has been like www.pressreader.com/canada/the-g... IDK why direct link doesn't come but here
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We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Join us on Thursday, OCTOBER 16th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET over Zoom for a conversation about How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes 🔥💻🌐
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
This panel will feature four phenomenal disability culture workers, activists, writers, and scholars in conversation with DISCO's own @remiyergeau.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We're so excited for TOMORROW ❤️🔥 Join us at 4:00 PM ET for a virtual conversation on crip wisdom, critique, and how to survive techno-hellscapes between @beza.bsky.social, @christateston.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & The Cyborg Jillian Weise
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
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October 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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...
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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.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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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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October 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Also @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and I wrote this: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/07/t...
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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October 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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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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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July 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
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"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.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"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."
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
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... this title says it all
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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July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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...
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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July 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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...
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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."
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June 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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."
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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
June 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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
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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
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
June 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.
June 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.