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Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice

by Ann Cvetkovich

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172 pages Duke University Press ISBN 9781478034292
Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Femme Care, and Somatic Practice book cover by Ann Cvetkovich
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Learning from the High Priestess

In Learning from the High Priestess, Ann Cvetkovich integrates theory and somatic practice to assemble a survival guide for artists, academics, and activists in search of new strategies for social justice in times of trouble. Building on her previous work on why feelings matter to political action and intellectual inquiry, Cvetkovich shows how experiments in writing can be a form of affective and somatic practice. She uses four key themes—care, disability and madness, trauma and somatics, and breath—as launch points for reframing discourses of mental health in the direction of practices for decolonizing bodyminds and for the sensory experience of freedom. Engaging with writer-practitioners from Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Alison Bechdel to Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Staci Haines, and Kai Cheng Thom, with particular emphasis on Black feminisms, Cvetkovich places femme care and embodied practice at the center of movements for social transformation.

Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Ann Cvetkovich
Format
Hardcover
Release date
Nov 24, 2026
ISBN-13
9781478034292
ISBN-10
1478034297
Pages
172

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