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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.
List of 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
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.
Summary
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.
