Through an Addict's Looking-Glass - Couverture souple

Sebatindira, Waithera

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914221206 ISBN 13 : 9781914221200

Editeur : Hajar Press, 2023

Synopsis

Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass is an exercise in meaning-making, a thinking-out-loud. Waithera Sebatindira unravels how it feels to live as an addict under capitalism, pondering how engaging with these experiences could bring the horizon of liberation towards us.

Through embodied explorations of addiction and recovery, Sebatindira invites us to inhabit crip time, a concept that describes different temporal realities in the lives of disabled people. In this collection, the addict’s crip time is distorted, mutable and non-linear, hopping backwards and forwards through memory loops and memory loss. Blackout is time travel; sobriety is failure; finitude, freedom.

An uncompromising rejection of the objectification of addicts across the political spectrum, this powerful meditation on illness, disability, solidarity and spirituality illuminates their indispensable contributions to the building of a new world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Waithera Sebatindira is a Kenyan writer based in London. Their previous writing and research interests have included food imperialism, drag kings and gender transformation. They are the author of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass and a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hajar Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914221206
• ISBN 13: 9781914221200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible