Description
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Book Summary
This collective book, whose title borrows a line from the poet June Jordan, brings together the testimonies of twenty women in struggle. Over a two-year process of listening and writing, the voices of women belonging to social groups traditionally excluded from the publishing world have been collected. The result is a work that makes visible everyday resistance against evictions, violence, and injustice, offering a raw and necessary truth that challenges the norms of the hegemonic narrative.
What is it about?
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is an exercise in narrative justice. The book collects first-person stories from women who, through oral tradition, have built knowledge to survive exclusion and violence. Some of them do not know how to read or write, but their experience is the material with which this collective testimony is woven. Through their words, the reader gains access to realities that rarely occupy the pages of a book: the fight for housing, resistance against the judicial system, labor precarity, and community organizing. The work does not merely document; it subverts the norm by allowing these women to occupy the space of the book with their words, a space traditionally reserved for other voices.
Main themes
- Feminist resistance from social and economic margins
- Fight against institutional violence and evictions
- Orality as a tool for documentation and empowerment
- Exclusion of non-academic voices from the literary and publishing system
- Collective organization and grassroots activism
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at readers interested in intersectional feminism, political and social activism, and essays that address inequality from a testimonial perspective. It is also a relevant work for those working in social movements, unions, or groups fighting for housing and women's rights. Due to its accessible format and its focus on orality, it may interest both academics and a general public committed to social justice.
What this book contributes
- Direct access to real testimonies of women who rarely have a space in written literature
- A deep understanding of structural violence through lived experience
- Tools to rethink the literary canon and who has the right to tell their story
- A model of a collective writing process that challenges traditional hierarchies
- A feminist perspective that connects theory with the practice of everyday resistance
Technical specifications
- Author: Collective of Authors
- Publisher: La Oveja Roja
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Literary essays, feminism and feminist theory, political activism, unions
- Collection: Essay
- Publication date: September 2020
- Number of pages: 200
- Weight: 352 g
Editorial review
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a necessary work within the landscape of feminist essays and political activism. Its main value lies in the honesty of the testimonies and in the collective process that made them possible. By giving a voice to women who usually do not have access to the book as an object, the work questions the exclusion mechanisms of the publishing and literary system. It is a recommended read for those looking for a non-academic approach to feminist struggle from the grassroots level, and for those who value literature as a tool for social transformation.