‘This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is shared, and pain is reconfigured into a powerful force for social change and collective healing.’ —Astra Taylor, author The People’s Platform
‘A primary message here is that from tears comes the resolve for the struggle ahead.’ —Ron Jacobs, author of Daydream Sunset
‘Rebellious Mourning uncovers the destruction of life that capitalist development leaves in its trail. But it is also witness to the power of grief as a catalyst to collective resistance.’ —Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
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 nineteen others.
Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations, co-author of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, and editor of the anthology Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism.
Daftar Isi
Prologue: Fissures in the Wall | Cindy Milstein
1 Feeling Is Not Weakness: On Mourning and Movement | Benji Hart
2 The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning | Claudia Rankine
3 Your Grief Is My Grave | Kai Cheng Thom
4 Dust of the Desert | Lee Sandusky
5 Her Brother | Syed Hussan
6 Lungful of Mountain | Wren Awry
7 Rages of Fukushima and Grief in a No-Future Present | Mari Matsumoto,
interviewed, translated, and with a prologue by Sabu Kohso
8 To the Lights That Never Went Out | Natasha Tamate Weiss
9 it takes an ocean not to break | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
10 Fragments toward a Whole | Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
11 Cracks in My Universe | A. J. Withers
12 To Mourn and Strike | Jeff Clark
13 In Self-Defense, In Defense of Memory | Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo,
translated and with a prologue by Scott Campbell
14 Altars for the Dead in a Land without Cemeteries | Fernando Martí
15 On the One-Year Community Commemoration of Alex Nieto
| Refugio and Elvira Nieto, translated by Adriana Camarena
16 The Gentrification of AIDS | Sarah Schulman
17 Grief and Organizing in the Face of Repression:
The Fight against AIDS in Prison | David Gilbert, interviewed and
with a prologue by Dan Berger
18 Postcards from America: X Rays from Hell | David Wojnarowicz
19 Nansi Cisneros, a Sister Whose Pain and Demand for Justice
Knows No Borders | Nidia Melissa Bautista
20 “They Could Be My Grandchildren” | Andalusia Knoll Soloff
21 What Is Possible | Harmony Hazard
22 Fighting to Bury Their Children:
On the Necropolitics of Occupation | Budour Hassan
23 As the Heart Breaks | Cindy Milstein
24 Seeds beneath the Snow: Anarchists Mourn Our Dead | Emmett Doyle
Tentang Penulis
Cindy Milstein: Cindy Milstein is the author of
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press), coauthor of
Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press), editor of the anthology
Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism (AK Press), and posts writing at cbmilstein.wordpress.com. Long engaged in grassroots organizing, social movements, and collective spaces, Cindy has recently been part of solidarity projects revolving around resisting displacement, gentrification, police, and prisons. Cindy was caregiver and death doula for three parents’ (biological and chosen) illnesses and hospice over the past four years while also battling with eviction.
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