Medicine Stories

Essays for Radicals

AvAurora Levins Morales

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays-twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised-she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, Medicine Stories brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478001904

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Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of several books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of PuertorriqueÑas.

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"Morales’s book is an excellent tool for understanding some of the dynamics of social justice movements and should be part of activists’ survival kits against despair." - Nylca J. Muñoz Sosa (Monthly Review) “Perhaps the most directly significant contribution of Medicine Stories...is Levins Morales’s framing of oppression as the most widespread and systematically reproduced source of trauma.... Medicine Stories maps the intimate and collective pathways of survival that communities and individuals find in the face of violence and injustice....” - Corinne Lajoie (Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies)

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Libation vThe Ground on Which I StandEcology Is Everything 3Bigger Is Better 10My Feminism 18Identity and Solidarity 34The Power of Story 42The Truths Our Bodies Tell 47The Historian as CuranderaFalse Memories: Trauma and Liberation 55The Historian as Curandera 69Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic 89What Race Isn't: Teaching about Racism 95RaÍcism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice 99The Politics of Childhood 104Speaking in TonguesOn Not Writing English 111Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish 115Certified Organic Intellectual 121Ban Me! 127TribesThe Tribe of GuarayamÍn 133TaÍno Citizenship 140Speaking of Antisemitism 145BDS and Me 154Puerto Ricans and Jews 157Privilege and LossClass, Privilege, and Loss 175Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 179Torturers 192Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn't Write This Essay 197The Long HaulBuilding Radical Soil 207Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion 211Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 217A Note From the Author 223Index 225

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