Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 26th, 2019
- Pages: 248
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised -
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.50in - 0.74lb
- EAN: 9781478003090
- Categories: • Caribbean & Latin American• Essays• Literary Figures
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
"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" (3/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)
"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" (11/11/2020 12:00:00 AM)