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Jan.17.2012
On Not Being Banned
To Former Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, and the Tucson Unified School District.
I am writing to protest discriminatory actions on your part that amount to defamation of my...
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Jul.08.2011
A couple of days ago I invented a new word in my favorite fast-growing language, Spanglish. Spanglish happens when Spanish speaking people grab a word from English and make it our own. (Ingañol is when we anglicize something from Spanish.) Puerto Ricans, whose homeland has been invaded by a...
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There is no other book like Remedios. It is history, anthropology, poetry and myth; it is a song and a prayer. Aurora Levins Morales is a Jewish Latina curandera who embraces diverse legacies with passion and eloquence. In stories so beautiful they soar off the page...she offers us remedies that heal our bodies and souls and feed the spirits of our many forgotten ancestors.”
—Ruth Behar
About Aurora
I'm a Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical writer, historian and activist. Born in Puerto Rico, I came to the US in 1967, spent my teens in Chicago, college in New Hampshire and have lived in the Bay Area since 1976. I grew up in a rainforest, in a house...
Causes Aurora Levins Morales Supports
Middle East Children's Alliance, Sins Invalid, Jewish Voice for Peace, Re-evaluation Foundation
Aurora’s Favorite Books
The Master Butcher's Singing Club, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Hundred Secret Senses, Imposing Decency, The Universe Story,A Green History of the World...