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01899aam a2200349 i 4500 001 B59B6BE6056911ECB499C0A930ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210825010011 008 210324s2021 mnu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021007841 020 $a 1566896169 020 $a 9781566896160 035 $a (OCoLC)1249712716 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a 305.800973 $2 23 100 1 $a Singh, Julietta, $d 1976- $e author. 245 14 $a The breaks / $c Julietta Singh. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b Coffee House Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 152 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering childrens radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths. The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary U.S. discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity facesclimate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialisminviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future. 600 10 $a Singh, Julietta, $d 1976- 650 0 $a East Indians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mother and child $z United States. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States. 650 0 $a Queer theory $z United States. 941 $a 2 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024818.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210825010036.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B59B6BE6056911ECB499C0A930ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search