num_pages: 224
description: This new collection of poetry and prose explores the body as a site of pleasure pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer historian and activist Aurora Levins Morales writes about epilepsy and stroke the social control of dark skinned women's sexuality and the erotics of chronic fatigue epigenetics and healing justice community based science and what it's like to get health care in Cuba.Aurora's writing is itself a kind of alchemy balancing emotional nuance with rich historical context simultaneously speaking in an intimate personal voice and for a collective we. She offers us vulnerable power-filled lyricism that moves the audience to new understandings of their own lives as she claims her body's pleasure and pain. Patty Berne Co-founder and Artistic Director Sins Invalid. Medically kindling refers to the way bodies can be sensitized by small repeated exposures to chemicals or electric shocks. Auroras essays and poems about the human bodys responses to oppression describe both the kindling of disease and of consciousness fragments of tinder that ignite into a blazing awareness of our bodies as sites of struggle and transformation.Casimira Fuentes ONeill M.D.
language: English
title: Kindling
publisher: Palabrera Press