The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral works and unpublished pieces, this collection weaves together stories of bodies, ecologies, Indigeneity, illness, travel, sexuality, and more. As Levins Morales reflects on her use of storytelling as a tool for change, she gathers the threads of lives and places sacrificed to greed and extraction while centering care for our individual bodyminds and those of our kin, communities, and movements. This comprehensive and essential collection provides an unprecedented window into the breadth and depth of the work of one of the most significant thinkers of our time.

Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist. She is the author of many books, including Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, also published by Duke University Press.

Gratitudes  xi
Introduction: Explico Algunas Cosas  1
1. This Is My Name  21
2. Earth Body  61
3. The Tool of the Story  119
4. Mapping Where it Hurts  159
5. Making Medicine  181
6. The Story of What is Broken is Whole  235
7. Ancestors  269
8. Ceremony  327
9. Prophecy  377
Where to Go From Here  401
Supporting Aurora’s Work  407
Index  409