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The Land Is Holy is an antizionist, abolitionist, queer debut collection of essays from author noam keim exploring the inhabitants of the natural world through threads of trauma, colonialism, and healing, published on May 28, 2024 from worker-owned publisher Radix Media. To celebrate this achievement by the Philly author, we are putting together a launch event featuring a reading by noam keim, followed by a conversation with author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on the political personal essay.

noam keim (they/them) is a trauma worker, medicine maker and flâneur freak. Their non-fi ction writing weaves themes close to their heart: reverence to the land, healing, queerness, colonialism, plants, abolition. They are a Lambda Literary ’22 Fellow, an RWW ’23 Fellow, a Tin House ’23 Fellow, a Sewanee ’23 contributor and a Periplus ’23 Fellow mentored by Grace Talusan. Connect on Twitter and Instagram at thelandisholy or thelandisholy.com.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is DIsabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon), Tonguebreaker, and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. A Disability Futures Fellow, Lambda and Jeanne Córdova Award winner and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker, they are currently building Living Altars, a cultural space space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers.