![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I write about cancer and exhaustion and irritable bowels in the context of the treeless slopes of my homeland, of market-driven famine of xenoestrogens and the possible extinction of bees, I am tracing that map with my fingertips, walking into the heart of the storm that shakes my body and occupies the world.” -Aurora Levins Morales, Disabled, Puerto Rican Writer and Activist. We need nourishment, equilibrium, water, connection, justice. If there is a map to get there, it can be found in the atlas of our skin and bone and blood, in the tracks of neurotransmitters and antibodies. “What our bodies, my mother’s and yours and mine, require in order to thrive, is what the world requires. FREE and open to the public, all times Eastern. ![]() RSVP below to receive login information (our virtual events are held via Zoom). Convened and moderated by heidi andrea restrepo rhodesįeaturing Diannely Antigua, Jimena Lucero, Aurora Levins Morales, & Naomi OrtízĪ collaboration between Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies and The Writer’s Center in Bethesda MD, this event is part of the Poetry Coalition 2022 initiative themed on “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice.” This program was made possible in part with funds from the Academy of American Poets provided by The Andrew W. ![]()
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