If you believe the pharmaceutical industry, it is a synthetic or naturallyderived substance that we bring into our bodies to make whatever is uncomfortable or painful go away. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. I plan to do a lot more online teaching and virtual book touring, restart my podcast series, and grow food and medicine while living in my solar powered tiny house. Please join us when aurora levins morales, a puerto rican ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist, reads from the newly revised and expanded edition of her book medicine stories.
It usually names the things it is trying to change as bad and the effect of taking it as good. When levins morales was yearsold, her family moved from their. Her lyrical meditations on ecology, childrens liberation, sexuality, and history show how political transformation and personal healing are inextricably bound. The title of this book is medicine stories and it was written by aurora levins morales. A lifelong artsbased organizer who uses history as a mode of storytelling, levins morales has been active in many social justice movements. Morales is the author of medicine stories, remedios. The spiraling crisis of puerto rico consortiumnews. She is the author of several books, including kindling. 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. The original eighteen essays examine trauma and oppression, historical memory, language, identity, nationalism and ecology, sustainable activism, and the deepest meaning of solidarity. The microbes within us and a grander view of life 19.
In auroras writing, there is only clarity the weaving together of. Aurora levins morales is a beloved healer, writer, historian, activist, creator, and elder. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, is widely taught. In this revised and expanded edition of medicine stories, aurora levins m. Writings on the body, and coauthored two books with her mother. First published in 1998, medicine stories is a collection of essays on the work of building 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. In medicine stories, levins morales writes lucidly about the complexities of social identity. Ive been reading medicine stories by aurora levins morales, who describes herself as a a light skinned puerto rican ashkenazi jewish, disabled, chronically ill, migrant, mixed class, single mother, woman of color artist and intellectual. History, culture and the politics of integrity by aurora levins morales 144 ratings, 4. Aurora levins moraless featured books medicine stories. That book will be out in april, 2019 from duke university press.
Sebastopol 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. Medicine stories by aurora levins morales drawing vibrant connections between the colonization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsides and the abuse of individual women, children and men, medicine stories offers the paradigm of integrity as a political model to people who hunger for a world of justice, health and love. Aurora levins morales is a puerto rican ashkenazi jewish feminist writer, historian and wellrounded radical. Aurora levins morales, author of medicine stories and kindling. Aurora levins morales is a jewish latina curandera who embraces diverse legacies with passion and eloquence. Aurora levins morales writes with such intimacy that the reader feels her strength, her resilience, her story that i finished the book inspired to write. Aurora levins morales edicie duke university press.
She is the author of six books including medicine stories, remedios. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. History, culture, and the politics of integrity, is a series of essays discussing such issues as history and the place of women in politics, colonization, and political activism. Kindling writings on the body, aurora levins morales recent book, builds on the legacy of medicine stories and remedios to be within this difference between love and violence and its impact, in this case, the story of one body experiencing multiple levels of chronic pain. Levins morales is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and was raised as a jewish red diaper baby in the mountains of puerto rico. It was published by south end press and has a total of 5 pages in the book. Aurora levins morales is a puerto rican ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. Then, this was the hurricane stationed in our chest. A short book, but take your time to take in each essay. In this revised and expanded edition of medicine stories, aurora levins morales weaves together insights and lessons. Duke university press, 2019 dlc 2018032571 ocolc1050141849.
The book also includes autobiographical stories about levins morales growing up as a mixedrace child her father is. Aurora levins morales opens our eyes to the risks we need to confront in order to do serious feminist history. At age five, auroras mother taught her how to read. She is the daughter of an american jewish father and a puerto rican mother, author rosario morales. Puerto rican jewish feminist writer, author of getting home alive, medicine stories, and remedios, and a contributor to. She reminds us that the practice of our cultures is revolutionary and a needed tool to resist the other placed upon each of us. Aurora levins morales is creating writing and podcasts. I also wrote a new edition of my book medicine stories. A confusing array of snapshots of women from the history of the western hemisphere. Home what i do what we can do together connections blog support aurora puerto rico liberation my name is aurora levins morales.
In stories so beautifully told they soar off the page. Essays for radicals by aurora levins morales at indigo. Essays for radicals, adding twelve new essays and substantially revising nine more. Stories of earth and iron from the history of puertorriquenas. 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. Medicine stories is a collection of essays by aurora levins morales that vary in. Written in six months, it quickly became my most widely read book, and. Medicine stories originally published by south end press, cambridge, ma, 1998. Writings on the body reading this book allows you to live inside the gorgeous, uncomfortable, emergent, compassionate world that disabled femmes of color have been making all along. I am pleased to announce the publication of a revised and expanded edition of my book medicine stories.
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