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Atoms Never Touch
Micha Cárdenas; Foreword by Adrienne Maree Brown
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Discovery Miles 3 300
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Liberatory Harm Reduction is one of the most important
interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its
critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be
found. Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time
organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of
how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer
folks, trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are -
and have been - building systems of change and support outside the
societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation. This is a
collective story of trans women of color, who were sex workers and
radical political organizers, who created shared housing to ensure
that young people had safe places to sleep. It is the story of
clean syringes, "liberated" from empathetic doctors' offices by
activists who were punk women of color who distributed them among
injection drug users in squats in the East Village, and the early
AIDS activists who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It
is the story of Black Panthers and the Young Lords taking over
Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create
community-accessible drug treatment programs; and of bad date
sheets passed between sex workers in Portland, who created a data
collection tool that changed how prison abolitionists track
systemic violence. At a political moment when Liberatory Harm
Reduction and mutual aid are more important than ever, this book
serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for radical transformation
of our world.
Harm reduction is one of the most important movements of the 20th
century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices
was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found. Saving Our Own
Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira
Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers,
people of color, queer folks, and trans, gender non-conforming, and
two-spirit people are building systems of change and support
outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.
This is a collective story of Bad Date sheets passed between sex
workers in Portland, leading to the identification of a serial
killer. It is the story of clean syringes, “liberated” from
empathetic doctors offices and passed between punks in squats in
the East Village by women of color, and the early AIDS activists
who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It is the story
of transwomen of color, street-based sex workers, who created
shared housing to ensure that young people had safe places to
sleep. It is the story of Black Panthers creating a free breakfast
program to feed a revolution and the Young Lords taking over
Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create
community-accessible drug treatment programs. At a political moment
when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid are more important
than ever, this book serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for
radical transformation of our world.
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Liberation Tarot
Adrienne Maree Brown, emet ezell, Lawrence Barriner
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R1,132
R833
Discovery Miles 8 330
Save R299 (26%)
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In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.
Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. The majority of the book is sourced from brown's twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.
Includes contributions by Autumn Brown, Sage Crump, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ejeris Dixon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Micky ScottBey Jones, N'Tanya Lee, and Makani Themba
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
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