In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories , Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays—twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised—she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, Medicine Stories brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language. Table of Contents: Ecology is everything Bigger is better My feminism Identity and solidarity The power of story The truths our bodies tell False memories : trauma and liberation The historian as curandera Night flying : power, memory, and magic What race isn't : teaching about racism Racism : rootedness as spiritual and political practice The politics of childhood On not writing English Forked tongues : on not speaking Spanish Certified organic intellectual Ban me! The tribe of Guarayamín Taino citizenship Speaking of antisemitism BDS and me Puerto Ricans and Jews Class, privilege and loss Nadie La Tiene : land, ecology and nationalism Torturers Histerimonia : declarations of a trafficked girl or Why I couldn't write this essay Building radical soil Circle unbroken : the politics of inclusion Tai : a Yom Kippur sermon, 5778/2017