Revolutionary Mothering
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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.


Contributors include June Jordan, Malkia A. Cyril, Esteli Juarez, 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.


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Date de parution 01 avril 2016
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EAN13 9781629632452
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Praise for Revolutionary Mothering
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and very brave. These women insist on having their children in a society that does not welcome them, in a world that is rapidly falling apart. Their dream for their children, based on their love of them, encompasses the sorrow and the joy that mothers everywhere, whether human, animal, or plant, feel at this time. A radical vision, many radical visions of how to mother in a time of resistance and of pain.
-Alice Walker
For women of color, the art of mothering has been framed by the most virulent systems, historically: enslavement, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism. We have had few opportunities to define mothering not only as an aspect of individual lives and choices, but as the processes of love and as a way of structuring community. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines arrives as a needed balm. As Toni Cade Bambara once said, we need to make revolution irresistible.
-Alexis De Veaux, author of Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde and Yabo
Revolutionary Mothering is a love offering from diverse women of color around the globe-queer, immigrant, activist, feminist, poets, workers. An urgent call for radical, transgressive, political, defiant mothering, co-editors Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai a Williams provide an antidote to obligatory, compulsory motherhood which is pioneering and liberating.
-Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women s Studies at Spelman College
Since i am a non-bio/mothering female, who finds the idea of something growing in, then popping out of my body repugnant, nauseating, and depressing to even contemplate, it comes as a great and refreshing surprise that i honestly enjoyed this intense, vibrantly inspiring collection about radical mothering. Not just enjoyed but learned and totally admired the range of eclectic essays and approaches, as well as the brave, wonderful, trailblazing writers. Recommended for any passionately thinking person who cares about the quality of life in the near or distant future. For people who want to make a major, serious difference; for revolutionaries on a most profound and basic level.
-doris davenport, poet/writer/educator and one of the original contributors to This Bridge Called My Back
There are some books that are considered to be necessary and needed because they speak to the issues that guide our heart and situate our world. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is one of those books. Although it is primarily written for mothers of all ages, the issues that are raised-about family, love, struggle, sacrifice, and acceptance-are universal as they speak to the revolutionary that exists within all of us. It is the book that you will turn to again and again, the one that will become a lifestyle handbook in your home, and the one that you will recommend as a lifeline when folks feel that they have nothing left to give either to themselves or to others. It is the book that mothers have been waiting for.
-Karsonya Wise Whitehead, PhD, author Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis and Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America
there is an artform in the nurturing of life. when we think of the word revolutionary, what often comes to mind is a warrior with a roar of NO on their lips, moving against the forces of oppression. and there is this other force, the soil for the seed, the water for the green and fragile form, the wisdom to listen, the question that climbs under the cover where you cower away from the psychological and socioeconomic monsters, the shoulder with a collarbone cup for tears. the soft voice whispering, and believing, that who you are is marvelous and miraculous and irreplaceable. this collection offers us voices from those living into and redefining the act of mothering-in your hands is gift after gift of lessons learned on an intergenerational front line. listen to those who hold hands with the future-herein lies everything.
-adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is the revolutionary Black and Brown, queer and trans, disabled, non and many partnered parenting manual manifesto we have been waiting for. I am so grateful to see this book in the world, collecting pieces of work I have soaked up eagerly when I read them online, in zines, as handouts in workshops and in now out of print magazines. Love is lifeforce is a line June Jordan said, presented in an essay of hers published here for the first time. That phrase has been on my lips since I read it. This book is revolutionary, marginalized, resisting mama/parenting love lifeforce magic.
-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Dirty River , Love Cake , and Consensual Genocide
Through Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines , Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai a Williams have acted as parteras comunitarias, midwifes of words and experiences. This collection reflects, documents, and carries on an ancient and living legacy of practicing and defining motherhood beyond the constraints of the biological. As someone who has been living and writing about mami hood, the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality and activism through the lens of mothering, this book reads and feels like a shared collective deep breath, a shared chant/cancion of affirmation, reclamation, and transformation.
-Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz, NYRican mami media maker
This is the book for readers who know mothering is not just about a baby and a mother or parents in an isolated suburban nursery, but that mothering happens in a context of generations, a context of racial history, and in a spiritual context; that it takes place from the shoreline to the front line, in times of scarcity and abundance; that it is queer and love-filled. Here, revolution, love, and mothering are an inseparable unity. Here, the voices of women of color feminists-mothers, daughters, childcare workers-carry on the conversation begun in the 1970s and 1980s, pick up the threads of the reproductive justice movement which has been in the struggle for 20 years.
These writings are grounded in the force of transgressive love. It is an act of love by the editors and a gift for readers that June Jordan s The Creative Spirit: Children s Literature is anthologized here for the first time. Jordan says, Love is lifeforce . I see love as the essential nature of all that supports life.
The book s first sentence opens in the complex matrix of domination and oppression under Ronald Reagan s cowboy capitalism. The dozens of essays which follow illuminate the complexity of radical 21st-century mothering. The book ends in the home, close up, with one mother and her children: for a year, the mother has drawn a coffee cup a day to remind herself to mind her own needs and desires. On her birthday, her children give her a coffee cup paper sculpture which they have made. After her children have gone to bed, she writes, I savor how much there is to celebrate during this time of transformation. And transformation is what this collection of inspiring essays is about.
-Faith Holsaert, co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC

This edition first published in Canada in 2016 by Between the Lines
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Revolutionary mothering : love on the front lines /Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai a Williams, eds.
Between the Lines ISBN 978-1-77113-254-1 (paperback)
1. Mothers--Social conditions. 2. Minority women--Social conditions. 3. Motherhood--Social aspects. 4. Motherhood--Political aspects. I. Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-, editor II. Martens, China, 1966-, editor III. Williams, Mai a, editor
HQ759.R49 2016 306.874 3 C2015-907923-3
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai a Williams
2016 by PM Press
ISBN: 9781629631103
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015930906
Cover: John Yates/Stealworks.com
Cover print, Heartbeat City by Favianna Rodriguez ( Favianna.com )
Layout: Jonathan Rowland
PM Press
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dedicated to all the revolutionary mothers and all the revolutions they ve created, because mothering is love by any means necessary
Contents
Preface-Loretta J. Ross
Introduction-Mai a Williams
Organization of This Book: Roots and Branches
I. Intergenerational Introduction: Foremothers for Mothering
Introduction-Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Creative Spirit: Children s Literature-June Jordan
m/other ourselves: a Black queer feminist genealogy for radical mothering-Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Motherhood, Media, and Building a 21st-Century Movement-Malkia A. Cyril
On My Childhood, El Centro del

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