Learning to Mother Ourselves: A Storytelling Cypher (Revolutionary Mothering)
Please join Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs (co-editor of) Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and Hawa Y. Mire, and Dr. Karyn Recollett for an interactive storytelling experience focusing on how we can learn to mother ourselves and on another.
Children are welcome. If you are a U of t student who requires assistance with childcare expenses in order to attend this event, please contact the Family Care Office at 416-978-0951 for more information. If you require other accommodation(s) to attend this event, please contact 416-978-6056 by October 21.
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer Black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s,_ Revolutionary Mothering_ places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.
Revolutionary Mothering contributors include June Jordan, Malkia A. Cyril, Esteli Juarez Boyd, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fabiola Sandoval, Sumayyah Talibah, Victoria Law, Tara Villalba, Lola Mondragón, Christy NaMee Eriksen, Norma Angelica Marrun, Vivian Chin, Rachel Broadwater, Autumn Brown, Layne Russell, Noemi Martinez, Katie Kaput, alba onofrio, Gabriela Sandoval, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Ariel Gore, Claire Barrera, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Fabielle Georges, H. Bindy K. Kang, Terri Nilliasca, Irene Lara, Panquetzani, Mamas of Color Rising, tk karakashian tunchez, Arielle Julia Brown, Lindsey Campbell, Micaela Cadena, and Karen Su.