Lgbt studies. Asian American studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage...Lgbt studies. Asian American studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of south asian and arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in sri lanka and the dias poetry.