Creative Activism: Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts
- Author: Rubin, Rachel
Book
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Contents
- Introduction
- SECTION 1 : Coal
- 1. "I'll Throw This Apple Atcha": The Meaning of Mining According to Billy Edd Wheeler
- 2. "Visible, Horrible, Ugly": Toxicity According to John Sabraw
- 3. "The Baby Needed Milk": Collectivity According to Diane Gilliam Fisher
- SECTION 2 : War and Peace
- 4. "It's a Great American Tradition": War and Industry According to John Sayles
- 5. "Revolution by Tricks and Clowning": Trips According to Maxine Hong Kingston
- 6. "Part of My Being": Politics and Poetics According to Keorapetse Kgositsile
- SECTION 3 : Borders
- 7. "I Sing about Cesar Chavez in Gold Lame Hot Pants": Revolution and Celebration According to El Vez
- 8. "I'm Not Some Fucking Gadjo!": Migration According to Eugene Hutz
- 9. "Gaps We Cross with Technology": Solidarity and Surveillance According to Cory Doctorow
- 10. "What It's Like to Be Stuck": Interruption According to Julio Salgado
- SECTION 4 : Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
- 11. "It's Like Walt Whitman Gave Me a Blow Job": Action According to Abe Rybeck
- 12. "Simultaneity of Actions": Liberation According to Sarah Schulman
- 13. "Wigs and Skin": Colonialism According to Ama Ata Aidoo
- SECTION 5 : Economic Justice
- 14. "Hey, I See You": Revolution According to Boots Riley
- 15. "Power and Powerlessness": Detecting History According to Sara Paretsky
- 16. "Sometimes I Get Political, Sometimes I Get Offensive": Pushing Back According to Dallas Wayne
- SECTION 6 : Prisons
- 17. "The Anti-Slavery Act of 2002": Private Prisons and Social Justice According to Si Kahn
- 18. "Politics through Artistic Eyes, and Art through Political Eyes": Prison Rebellion According to Raul Salinas
- 19. "From My 6 x 9 Cell": Prison and Painting According to Anthony Papa
- SECTION 7 : Transformations
- 20. "It's All Connected": Service According to Betye Saar
- 21. "I'm a Bit of a Threat": Immortality According to Roz Kaveney
- 22. "Folklore, Fakelore and Fucklore": Metamorphosis According to Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
- Bibliography
- Index