Cindy Milstein: Cindy Milstein is the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press), coauthor of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press), editor of the anthology Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism (AK Press), and posts writing at cbmilstein.wordpress.com. Long engaged in grassroots organizing, social movements, and collective spaces, Cindy has recently been part of solidarity projects revolving around resisting displacement, gentrification, police, and prisons. Cindy was caregiver and death doula for three parents' (biological and chosen) illnesses and hospice over the past four years while also battling with eviction.

Prologue: Fissures in the Wall | Cindy Milstein1 Feeling Is Not Weakness: On Mourning and Movement | Benji Hart2 The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning | Claudia Rankine3 Your Grief Is My Grave | Kai Cheng Thom4 Dust of the Desert | Lee Sandusky5 Her Brother | Syed Hussan6 Lungful of Mountain | Wren Awry7 Rages of Fukushima and Grief in a No-Future Present | Mari Matsumoto, interviewed, translated, and with a prologue by Sabu Kohso8 To the Lights That Never Went Out | Natasha Tamate Weiss9 it takes an ocean not to break | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 10 Fragments toward a Whole | Kevin Yuen Kit Lo11 Cracks in My Universe | A. J. Withers12 To Mourn and Strike | Jeff Clark 13 In Self-Defense, In Defense of Memory | Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo, translated and with a prologue by Scott Campbell14 Altars for the Dead in a Land without Cemeteries | Fernando Martí15 On the One-Year Community Commemoration of Alex Nieto | Refugio and Elvira Nieto, translated by Adriana Camarena16 The Gentrification of AIDS | Sarah Schulman17 Grief and Organizing in the Face of Repression: The Fight against AIDS in Prison | David Gilbert, interviewed and with a prologue by Dan Berger18 Postcards from America: X Rays from Hell | David Wojnarowicz 19 Nansi Cisneros, a Sister Whose Pain and Demand for Justice Knows No Borders | Nidia Melissa Bautista20 "They Could Be My Grandchildren" | Andalusia Knoll Soloff21 What Is Possible | Harmony Hazard22 Fighting to Bury Their Children: On the Necropolitics of Occupation | Budour Hassan23 As the Heart Breaks | Cindy Milstein24 Seeds beneath the Snow: Anarchists Mourn Our Dead | Emmett Doyle

Grief can be a catalyst for social transformation.