Cindy Milstein

Rebellious Mourning

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“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.
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304 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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  • Ana Bernardinohas quoted3 years ago
    But another part of the sadness comes from a different place. It is derived from the confrontation of a political and economic reality that, in truth, is easier to avoid. It is the realization that up to this moment of upheaval, much of my ability to transcend violence has not been my ability to confront or interrupt it but rather to ignore it.
  • Ana Bernardinohas quoted3 years ago
    Our grief—our feelings, as words or actions, images or practices—can open up cracks in the wall of the system. It can also pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, intervulnerability and strength, empathy and solidarity. It can discomfort the stories told from above that would have us believe we aren’t human or deserving of life-affirming lives—or for that matter, life-affirming deaths.
  • Ana Bernardinohas quoted3 years ago
    “You think we’re trying to take down the whole wall? It’s enough to make a crack . . . [in] order to imagine everything that could be done tomorrow.”

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