The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896087948 ISBN 13: 9780896087941

Publisher: South End Pr, 2011

Synopsis

The Revolution Starts at Home Breaking a dangerous silence, this highly anticipated collection "needs to be read by all activists" "(Feminist Review)." Full description

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Review

My joy and gratitude at the original publication of "Revolution Starts at Home" is now only exceeded by my excitement in the reprinting of this essential text. If we are to build visionary communities rooted not only in resistance but also in love, we need this book, and books like it, for survival. It is as simple as that. --Walidah Imarisha, author of "Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption"

This book has brought me back from the brink of desperation many times. Its creative, real-world stories of interrupting intimate partner violence without using police or social services strengthens our community, builds our collective imagination, celebrates our resiliency, and pushes us to hone our practice. I keep a stockpile of this book on my shelf for gifting - it's required reading for justice seekers. --Shira Hassan, founder and principle consultant for Just Practice.

The book isn't just about how social services and state intervention can leave already vulnerable communities more at risk when it comes to addressing interpersonal violence; the personal essays, real-world testaments, and tools provided are about taking transformative justice to the next level and creating community and self-accountability. --Kjerstin Johnson, "Bitch Magazine"

About the Author

Ching-In Chen (editor): Ching-In Chen is the award-winning author of The Heart's Traffic: A Novel in Poems, listed by Hyphen among the 10 most notable books by Asian Americans in 2009. A multi-genre, border-crossing writer, Chen is a Kundiman and Lambda Fellow. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Rio Grande Review, Cha, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and winner of the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, among others, Chen has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Voices of Our Nations Foundation, Soul Mountain Retreat, Vermont Studio Center, and the Paden Institute. She is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside.

Jai Dulani (editor): Jai Dulani is an MFA candidate in the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College. An interdisciplinary storyteller, Dulani has been an Austin Project Fellow and a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multi-Media Artist-in-Residence. Dulani has worked as a consultant on LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence issues and facilitated leadership programs for young women, immigrant youth and LGBTQ youth in NYC. A recipient of the Third Wave Foundation Scholarship for Young Women & Trans Activists and a Slam Winner at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, Dulani is also a Kundiman fellow.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (editor): The award-winning author of Consensual Genocide, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the 2009-10 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley’s June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program, a 2009 Sins Invalid performer and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili. A frequent contributor to Bitch, Make/Shift, and ColorLines magazines, her work has been widely anthologized in such collected volumes as Yes Means Yes; Visible: A Femmethology; Homelands; Colonize This!; We Don’t Need Another Wave; Bitchfest; Without a Net; Dangerous Families; Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws; and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World.

Andrea Smith (preface): Andrea Smith is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. She is the award-winning author and/or editor of several books, including Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke University Press); Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide; The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex; and The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Smith currently serves as the US Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, and she is co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. She recently completed a report for the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools.

Contributors include: Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), Gina de Vries, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ana Lara, Mango Tribe, Philly's Pissed, UBUNTU

Edition details

• Publisher: South End Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0896087948
• ISBN 13: 9780896087941
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 325
• Editor: Chen Ching-in, Dulani Jai, Piepzna-samarasinha Leah Lakshmi