Levins Morales Aurora Levins Morales

Medicine Stories (eBook, PDF)

Essays for Radicals

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478003373
• Artikelnr.: 55837980

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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