This book really pushed me to fully grapple with the idea that being present in movement work is doing grief work. For much of my activist life I’ve pushed down and away my feelings of grief, sadness, and anger or channeled them into overwork - via writing, vigils, protests, campaign planning. I... ...more
Okay this book was 412 pages not 200 JUST SO YOU KNOW I read a REALLY LONG BOOK but it didn't feel like it because every essay was so awesome. Spans from about the time of the 80s AIDS crisis (Sarah Schulman, David Wojnarowicz) through coal country struggles, Palestine, Black Lives Matter, police... ...more
"We need to recognize both when sadness is keeping us from moving and when the urgency of movement is blocking our need to feel grief."
This is a POWERFUL book. It covers a vast amount of topics- Transgender rights, what it means to survive sexual abuse, living with AIDS, the 43 missing students... ...more
helpful and critical intervention in a needed discussion of the ways that affect and vulnerability need to factor into our organizing strategies. reckoning with how to cope with the state of being haunted in a way that doesn't explain away our pain but gives hope for submitting to the process of... ...more
What a lovely collection. Very intense, as the subject matter would suggest, but still absolutely worth the read. Covered some struggles I knew a lot about, some I didn't - and the range of formats was also great.
(On a logistical note, this is not the correct number of pages in the book...) ...more
A powerful collection of mostly personal essays (plus a few interviews) about collective experiences and expressions of grief occasioned by all manner of harms – youth murdered by police, sexual assault, racism, colonial occupation, AIDS, the prison-industrial complex, ableist abandonment, the vi... ...more