A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.
The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary U.S. discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces–climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism–inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
Author: Julietta Singh
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781566896160
Language: English
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