Rebellious mourning : the collective work of grief / edited by Cindy Milstein.

Date:
[2017]
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"We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border crossings, and racism to rape, the intimate yet tenacious writing in this volume shows that mourning can pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, empathy and solidarity. With contributions from Claudia Rankine, Sarah Schulman, David Wojnarowicz, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, David Gilbert, and thirty-two others. Also includes a 32-page color insert featuring artists like Jet Chalk, Oree Originol, Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, and more."-- From publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

Chico, CA, USA : AK Press, [2017]

Physical description

412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Contributors

Contents

Prologue: cracks in the wall / Cindy Milstein -- Feeling is not weakness: on mourning and movement / Benji Hart -- The condition of black life is one of mourning / Claudia Rankine -- Dust of the desert / Lee Sandusky -- Her brother / Syed Hussan -- It takes an ocean not to break / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Your grief is my grave / Kai Cheng Thom -- Fragments towards a whole / Kevin Yuen Kit Lo -- Lungful of mountain / Wren Awry -- To the lights that never went out / Natasha Tamate Weiss -- Rages of Fukushima and grief in a no-future present / Mari Matsumoto -- Cracks in my universe / A.J. Withers -- In self-defense, in defense of memory / Mirtha Luz Perez Robledo -- Altars for the dead in a land without cemeteries / Fernadndo Marti -- To mourn and strike / Jeff Clark -- Justice and love for Alex Nieto / Refugio and Elvira Nieto -- The gentrification of AIDS / Sarah Schulman -- Grief and organizing in the face of repression: the fight against AIDS in prison / David Gilbert -- Postcards from America: X rays from Hell / David Wojnarowicz -- Nansi Cisneros, a sister whose pain and demand for justice knows no borders / Nidia Melissa Bautista -- What is possible / Harmony Hazard -- "They could be my grandchildren" / Andalusia Knoll Soloff -- Fighting to bury their children: on the necropolitics of occupation / Budour Hassan -- Ghost stories: rock, paper, ashes / Cindy Milstein -- Seeds beneath the snow: anarchists mourn our dead / Patrick O'Donoghue.

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ISBN

  • 1849352844
  • 9781849352840