Through an addict's looking-glass / Waithera Sebatindira.

  • Sebatindira, Waithera
Date:
2023
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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."--From publishers' description.

Publication/Creation

London : Hajar Press, 2023.

Physical description

xi, 113 pages ; 20 cm

Contents

Guka's Hands, or The First Time My Hands Shook -- Introduction -- Memory Failures -- Sober Failures -- Is Addiction a Disability? -- Rhythm -- Ambivalence -- A Note on Religion -- Loneliness -- Alcoholics and the Imago Dei -- A Black Feminist God -- Shame -- Love is a Doing Word -- Abolition -- Accountability -- Afterlife -- Sarah is Reading a Poem in the SOAS Students' Union.

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Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    FCG.AI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781914221200
  • 1914221206