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Narrator
Julietta Singh
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Length
4 hours 30 minutes
Language
English
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s 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 US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces—climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism—inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of two previous books: No Archive Will Restore You and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her child and her best friend.
Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of two previous books: No Archive Will Restore You and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her child and her best friend.
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“In…the beauty of her insights…she exquisitely links theory and poetics to her own fears, insecurities, and certainty that one day her child will need to break away from her. This is a stunning work.”
“This is a lens-shifting book…It takes you into the experience of coming of age as a Brown girl who stands in the shadow of a society that fails to tell its whole truth and tries to hide its ugliness…Singh brings brown girls into the sun, and makes you want to change the ways of the world for our young people and for us all.”
“Singh’s clarity of thought, vulnerability, and passion for social justice all render this well-structured essay a pleasure to read.”
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