A monthly writing workshop for women (and gender nonconforming folks) dancing with cancer and other health issues lead by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Free, but call or email to register.
Come to this supportive space to write down the stories your body is holding: the good, the bad, the amazing, the resilient, the difficult and complicated of living with cancer and illness.
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This writing workshop is open to all, and no experience is necessary. We'll build a community of trust where we can write our uncensored truths, experiment with new kinds of writing and share the stories only we know how to tell.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher who lives with chronic illness. The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has been widely anthologized, including in Colonize This!, Without a Net, We Don't Need Another Wave, andPersistence: Still Butch and Femme. She is a lead artist with Sins Invalid, the Bay Area's performance project on disability and sexuality and has taught writing at UC Berkeley's June Jordan's Poetry for the People Program, Toronto's Asian Arts Freedom School and many colleges and community-based arts spaces across North America. She believes that writing can be a tool to liberate and heal.
