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About this book
People who have been damaged, thrown away, marginalized, or traumatized are more capable of apprehending social patterns, precisely because they’ve needed to be aware and vigilant about how the world works. For too long, those who rely on long-held rights and entitlement have claimed that others are biased about the very topics on which they have expertise. Damaged Like Me is a series of essays and stories that reveal a complex social landscape. It shows how possible and vital it is to build roads to a more equitable and loving collective culture that includes body sovereignty, racial justice, gender equity/liberation, and much more. It does so by relying on the insights and approaches to knowledge production of those on the receiving end of inequity and violence, those whose “objectivity” on issues of oppression has been consistently maligned despite their having the most to teach us.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1. Damaged, Like Me
- 2. Bodies in Motion
- 3. I Said “No” in Three Languages
- 4. How to Become a Racist Anti-Racism Educator
- 5. Mothers and Misfires
- 6. Two a.m.
- 7. Trigger Warnings and the Myth of Oversensitive Students
- 8. Unlovable
- 9. The Body Politic
- 10. Butch Dykes and Macho Men
- 11. No Grammar Police, but Maybe a League of Language Altruists
- 12. How We Come to Do It to Each Other
- 13. Fat Pedagogy in the Yoga Class
- 14. Language, Queer History, and Misogyny
- 15. Three, Two, One
- 16. Tattoos as Thresholds
- 17. Letting the Body Lead
- 18. The Body Is No Fickle Machine
- 19. I’m Not the Only One Who Lost Faith
- 20. When Does Life Begin? It’s the Wrong Question
- 21. At Least I’m a Thoughtful Liar
- 22. Your Fruit Bowl Is (Reasonably) Safe
- 23. The Scholar-Performer and the Audience
- 24. Damaged, Like My Son
- References
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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