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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.
Contents
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
