Kimberly Dark

Damaged Like Me (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

People who have been damaged, thrown away, marginalized, or traumatized are more capable of apprehending social patterns, precisely because they've needed to be aware and vigilant about how the world works. For too long, those who rely on long-held rights and entitlement have claimed that others are biased about the very topics on which they have expertise. Damaged Like Me is a series of essays and stories that reveal a complex social landscape. It shows how possible and vital it is to build roads to a more equitable and loving collective culture that includes body sovereignty, racial justice, gender equity/liberation, and much more. It does so by relying on the insights and approaches to knowledge production of those on the receiving end of inequity and violence, those whose "objectivity" on issues of oppression has been consistently maligned despite their having the most to teach us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849354158
• Artikelnr.: 60036023

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old; The Daddies; Love and Errors; and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Damaged, Like Me
2. Bodies in Motion
3. I Said "No" in Three Languages
4. How to Become a Racist, Anti-Racism Educator
5. Mothers and Misfires
6. Two AM
7. Trigger Warnings and the Myth of Oversensitivity
8. Unlovable
9. The Body Politic
10. Butch Dykes and Macho Men
11. On Behalf of Others
12. No Grammar Police, But Maybe a League of Language Altruists
13. How We Come to Do it to Each Other
14. Skydiving
15. Fat Pedagogy in the Yoga Class
16. Mama Has Something to Say
17. Three, Two, One
18. Exposure and Erasure
19. The Good You Can't Even Name
20. The Body is No Fickle Machine
21. I'm Not the Only One Who Lost Faith
22. At Least I'm a Thoughtful Liar
23. The Lessons
24. Your Fruit Bowl is (Reasonably) Safe
25. The Scholar-Performer and the Audience
26. Damaged, Like My Son