Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals

Aurora Levins Morales

Published by Duke University Press 2019

Medicine Stories

Essays for Radicals

Aurora Levins Morales

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003373

Overview
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About this book

In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Libation Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND
Ecology Is Everything Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Bigger Is Better Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
My Feminism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Identity and Solidarity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
The Power of Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
The Truths Our Bodies Tell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
THE HISTORIAN AS CURANDERA
False Memories: Trauma and Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
The Historian as Curandera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
What Race Isn’t: Teaching about Racism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Raícism: Rootedness as Spiritual and Political Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Politics of Childhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
On Not Writing English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Forked Tongues: On Not Speaking Spanish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Certified Organic Intellectual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Ban Me! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
TRIBES
The Tribe of Guarayamín Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Taíno Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Speaking of Antisemitism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
BDS and Me Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Puerto Ricans and Jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
PRIVILEGE AND LOSS
Class, Privilege, and Loss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Nadie la Tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Torturers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn’t Write This Essay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
THE LONG HAUL
Building Radical Soil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Circle Unbroken: The Politics of Inclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon, 5778/2017 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
A Note from the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 232

eBook

Published: March 14, 2019
ISBN: 9781478003373