The Way Disabled People Love Each Other

by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Genres: Poetry, Disability, Queer, LGBT, Nonfiction, Adult

128 pages, Paperback

Published April 7, 2026

About the author

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Toronto and Oakland-based poet, writer, educator and social activist. Her writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A new collection of fuel raged poetry from autistic disability activist Leak Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. These poems reflect the authors grief about the deaths of her abusive parents, anger at living through COVID and seeing fellow crip friends die. Her depression following the death of her friends and her hopes for persisting in a world that doesn't welcome disabled folk, especially queer and BIPOC ones. Powerful and moving and hard to put down!

[beyondthebookcase95 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This digs under your skins and lodges itself there. It got to me and I appreciated it but ohhhh damn it also hurts to read as well. But I thanked it and kept going.

ARC from Edelweiss and publisher, all thoughts are my own.