Between the Covers: Rebellious Mourning
AK Press received its shipment today of my edited anthology Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, and not only shared this photo on Instagram but these words too: “I am literally blown away by how beautiful this book is. inside and out.” This AK collective member also added: “Now shipping!” As in: https://www.akpress.org/rebellious-mourning.html.
So what’s inside, you ask, besides a beautiful design? Beautiful yet bittersweet first-person and/or frontline stories. Below you’ll find a list of the titles, along with the names of the thirty-seven contributors:
Contents
PROLOGUE: CRACKS IN THE WALL
cindy milstein / 1
FEELING IS NOT WEAKNESS: ON MOURNING AND MOVEMENT
benji hart / 13
THE CONDITION OF BLACK LIFE IS ONE OF MOURNING
claudia rankine / 25
DUST OF THE DESERT
lee sandusky / 39
HER BROTHER
syed hussan / 57
IT TAKES AN OCEAN NOT TO BREAK
leanne betasamosake simpson / 65
YOUR GRIEF IS MY GRAVE
kai cheng thom / 75
FRAGMENTS TOWARD A WHOLE
kevin yuen kit lo / 87
LUNGFUL OF MOUNTAIN
wren awry / 103
TO THE LIGHTS THAT NEVER WENT OUT
natasha tamate weiss / 117
RAGES OF FUKUSHIMA AND GRIEF IN A NO—FUTURE PRESENT
mari matsumoto, interviewed, translated, and with a prologue by sabu kohso / 123
CRACKS IN MY UNIVERSE
a. j. withers / 161
IN SELF—DEFENSE, IN DEFENSE OF MEMORY
mirtha luz pérez robledo, translated and with a prologue by scott campbell / 183
ALTARS FOR THE DEAD IN A LAND WITHOUT CEMETERIES
fernando martí / 197
TO MOURN AND STRIKE
prologue and interviews by jeff clark / 203
(featuring jose cruz, lapiztola, melanie cervantes and jesus barraza,
oree originol, tatyana fazlalizadeh, zola, jet chalk, and micah bazant)
JUSTICE AND LOVE FOR ALEX NIETO
refugio and elvira nieto, translated and with a prologue by adriana camarena / 235
THE GENTRIFICATION OF AIDS
sarah schulman / 249
GRIEF AND ORGANIZING IN THE FACE OF REPRESSION:E FIGHT AGAINST AIDS IN PRISON
david gilbert, interviewed and with a prologue by dan berger / 271
POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA: X RAYS FROM HELL
david wojnarowicz / 299
NANSI CISNEROS, A SISTER WHOSE PAIN AND DEMAND FOR JUSTICE KNOWS NO BORDERS
nidia melissa bautista / 315
WHAT IS POSSIBLE
harmony hazard / 323
‘‘THEY COULD BE MY GRANDCHILDREN’’
andalusia knoll soloff / 343
FIGHTING TO BURY THEIR CHILDREN: ON THE NECROPOLITICS OF OCCUPATION
budour hassan / 357
GHOST STORIES: ROCK, PAPER, ASHES
cindy milstein / 375
SEEDS BENEATH THE SNOW: ANARCHISTS MOURN OUR DEAD
patrick o’donoghue / 405
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