Your Healing is Killing Me

Your Healing is Killing Me is a performance manifesto based on lessons learned in San Antonio free health clinics and New York acupuncture schools; from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, community health workers, and bourgie dermatologists while living with post-traumatic stress disorder, ansia, and eczema in the new age of trigger warnings, the master cleanse, and Kickstarter-funded self-care.

After the premiere in New York City, we launched a book tour to over 15 cities in Texas, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington, including readings at over 15 different community venues from art galleries to community centers to book stores to private homes, over 20 different universities and a women’s prison.

The book made the NBC News Best Latino Books According to Latinx Writers List and Small Press Distributor’s Top 150 Books of the Decade List. The book is currently taught at Princeton University, Brandeis University, Rutgers University, University of California Santa Barbara, University of California Davis, Scripps College, University of California Riverside, State University of New York Purchase College, University of Oregon, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Fresno State University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Eastern Washington University, Washington State University Pullman, University of Houston, Texas A&M University, University of Texas San Antonio, University of Texas Austin, Trinity University, St. Edwards University, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Loyola University and the California Institute of the Arts.