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The Revolution Starts at Home
Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
Ching-In Chen (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Andrea Smith (preface)
Pages: 368ISBN: 978-0-89608-794-1
Format: Paperback original
Release Date: 2011-05-01
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The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence affects relationships across the sexuality and gender spectrums, the likelihood of isolation and irreparable harm, including death, is even greater within LGBTQI communities. To effectively resist violence out there—in the prison system, on militarized borders, or during other clear encounters with "the system"—we must challenge how it is reproduced right where we live. It's one thing when the perpetrator is the police, the state, or someone we don't know. It's quite another when that person is someone we call friend, lover, mentor, trusted ally.
Based on the popular zine that had reviewers and fans alike demanding more, The Revolution Starts at Home finally breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the "open secret" of intimate violence—by and toward caretakers, in romantic partnerships, and in friendships—within social justice movements. This watershed collection compiles stories and strategies from survivors and their allies, documenting a decade of community accountability work and delving into the nitty-gritty of creating safety from abuse without relying on the prison industrial complex.
Fearless, tough-minded, and ultimately loving, The Revolution Starts at Home offers potentially life-saving alternatives for creating survivor safety while building a movement where no one is left behind.
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Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic.
Kundiman Fellow Jai Dulani is an interdisciplinary storyteller and activist/educator.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the author of Consensual Genocide.
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; Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide; The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex; and 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.
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Table of Contents
Preface / Andrea SmithIntroduction / Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
PART 1: Safety at the Intersections of Intimate, Community & State Violence
Reclaiming Queer & Trans Safety / Morgan Bassichis
Ending Oppression. Building Solidarity. Creating Community Solutions. / Meiver De la Cruz & Carol Gomez, MataHari: Eye of the Day
It Takes Ass to Whip Ass: Understanding & Confronting Violence Against Sex Workers / roundtable discussion with Miss Major, Mariko Passion & Jessica Yee; introduced & edited by Juliet November
I Am Because We Are: Believing Surivors & Facing Down the Barrel of the Gun / Alexis Pauline Gumbs (UBUNTU); interviewed by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
PART 2: On Survivorship
Homewrecker / Gina de Vries
The Secret Joy of Accountability: Self-accountability as a Building Block for Change / Shannon Perez-Darby
Seeking Asylum: On Intimate Partner Violence & Disability / Peggy Munson
There Is Another Way / Ana-Maurine Lara
PART 3: (Re)claiming Body, (Re)Claiming Space
Manifesto / Vanessa Huang
Without My Consent / Bran Fenner
A Sliding Stance / N.
when your parents made you / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Freedom & Strategy * Trauma & Resistance / Timothy Colm ...
Ching-In Chen
Click here to view Ching-In Chen's full Author PageChing-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi/Red Hen Press, 2009). Daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman and Lambda Fellow and a member of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundations writing communities. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, and Riverside.
Chen's poetry has been featured at poetry readings across the country, including Poets Against Rape, Word from the Streets, and APAture Arts Festival: A Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including Quarterly West, Chroma, Sinister Wisdom, OCHO, Water~Stone Review, Diagram and BorderSenses.
Chen has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from Soul Mountain Retreat, Vermont Studio Center, the Paden Institute, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
A graduate of Tufts University, she received her MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
www.chinginchen.com
Jai Dulani
Click here to view Jai Dulani's full Author PageJai Dulani is a South Asian queer activist who works at the intersections of LGBTQ, youth, immigrant justice and anti-violence movements. An interdisciplinary storyteller, Dulani has been a Kundiman Asian American Poet Fellow, a member of the Austin Project, and a BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Artist-in-Residence. Coeditor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press), his work also appeared in SAMAR, bustingbinaries, and the anthology Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academics and the Austin Project. Dulani has worked with young people in NYC facilitating youth leadership programs with an anti-oppression framework at organizations including Global Action Project, Sadie Nash Leadership Institute, and South Asian Youth Action. In addition, Dulani has served as a consultant and provided trainings on LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence issues.
Dulani is currently co-director of FIERCE, a membership-based organization building the leadership and power of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color in New York City. For more information, please visit http://www.fiercenyc.org/index.php?s=1
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Click here to view Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's full Author PageLEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She was the 2009-2010 Artist in Residence and part-time professor at UC Berkeley’s June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists.
She is a commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people with disabilities. Her one woman show, "Grown Woman Show," has toured nationally, including performances at the National Queer Arts Festival, Swarthmore College, Yale University, Reed College and McGill University.
The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has appeared in the anthologies Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World. She writes regularly for Bitch, Colorlines, Hyphen, Left Turn and Make/shift magazines. Her second book of poetry, Love Cake, was published in 2011 by TSAR Publications and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She is also working on her first memoir, Dirty River.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, focusing on creative nonfiction and community-based teaching by writers of color. In 2009 she was honored as the Bent Writing Institute's 2009 Bent Mentor. She is a track coordinator for the Growing Safer Communities track of the 2011 Allied Media Conference and an advisor on the Disability Justice track.
She blogs at http://www.brownstargirl.org/
