Welcome to my online home.
Estás en tu casa. Feel free to wander around, find out who I am and see what I've been up to. You can read my blogs or excerpts of my poetry, fiction and essays, watch videos of my lectures, buy my books, or book me to speak, and learn about some of the projects I'm involved in. Ask Aurora
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What's New
Filagree: A Norma Morales Mystery
I'm hard at work revising my mystery novel, Filigree, set in Puerto Rico in 1897. Running beneath the main story, like an underground stream, are small chapter-end fragments I call the voices of the bones, the forgotten dead of our history.
Go to Pinterest to get a glimpse of the world of the novel. Cosecha and Other Stories
 Sari at work.
Meanwhile, I'm also doing the last bits of polishing on Cosecha, a new collection of stories, a final collaboration between me and my mother, Rosario Morales, who died in March, 2011. We became writers together, read each other our drafts, and nurtured each others tender new ideas and bold moves for forty years. I'll be posting some excerpts soon.
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New Website on Radical Latin American Jews
This is what comes of good conversations! Projects. After an evening talking with my friend Mónica Gomery and my father, I stayed up all night setting up a site to highlight the history of Jewish radicalism in Latin America. It's still very much in process but please visit and take a look here.
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More about Kindling...
At CIREN rehab center in Cuba, June,2009.
A lifelong feminist and radical, artist and activist, storyteller and historian, Aurora Levins Morales' writing bridges the gap between the intimately personal and the global, between sensual experience and theory.
In Kindling she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all our bodies, of the body of the planet.
This new collection of essays, poetry and creative prose explores the body as a site of pleasure, pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer, historian and activist Aurora Levins Morales writes about epilepsy and stroke, the social control of dark skinned women's sexuality and the erotics of chronic fatigue, epigenetics and healing justice, community based science and what it's like to get health care in Cuba.
"Aurora's writing is itself a kind of alchemy, balancing emotional nuance with rich historical context, simultaneously speaking in an intimate, personal voice and for a collective we. She offers us vulnerable, power-filled lyricism that moves the audience to new understandings of their own lives, as she claims her body's pleasure and pain."
Patty Berne, Co-founder and Artistic Director, Sins Invalid.
In Kindling she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all our bodies, of the body of the planet.
This new collection of essays, poetry and creative prose explores the body as a site of pleasure, pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer, historian and activist Aurora Levins Morales writes about epilepsy and stroke, the social control of dark skinned women's sexuality and the erotics of chronic fatigue, epigenetics and healing justice, community based science and what it's like to get health care in Cuba.
"Aurora's writing is itself a kind of alchemy, balancing emotional nuance with rich historical context, simultaneously speaking in an intimate, personal voice and for a collective we. She offers us vulnerable, power-filled lyricism that moves the audience to new understandings of their own lives, as she claims her body's pleasure and pain."
Patty Berne, Co-founder and Artistic Director, Sins Invalid.
