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Revolutionary mothering : love on the front lines / [edited by] Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams.

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PM Press, 2016.

Mothers, Black -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Mothers -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Minority women -- Social conditions.

Motherhood -- Social aspects.

Motherhood -- Political aspects.

Feminists, Black -- United States -- Anecdotes.

Feminists -- United States -- Anecdotes.

9781629631103 (pbk.)

xviii, 250 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Intergenerational introduction: foremothers for mothering (Introduction) / !r Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- !t 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 Raza, and remembering / Esteli Juarez -- II. From the shorelines to the front lines (Introduction) / Mai'a Williams -- a conversation with my six-year-old about revolution / Cynthia Dewi Oka -- A Los Angeles quartet: daily survival, body memory, first-world single mama, identity and mothering / Fabiola Sandoval -- Mothering as revolutionary praxis / Cynthia Dewi Oka -- Super babies / Sumayyah Talibah -- Doing it all... and then again with child / Victoria Law -- population studies / Cynthia Dewi Oka -- She is radical / Tara Villalba and Lola Mondrag©đn -- My son runs in riots / Christy NaMee Eriksen -- III. The bottom line (Introduction) / China Martens -- Single mama moments / Christy NaMee Eriksen -- Why don't you love her? / Norma Angelica Marrun -- Mothering / Vivian Chin -- Brave hearts / Rachel Broadwater -- Scarcity and abundance / Autumn Brown -- The clothesline / Layne Russell -- This is what radical mamihood looks like / Noemi Martinez -- IV. Out (of) line (Introduction) / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Forget Hallmark: why Mother's Day is a queer black left feminist thing / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Three thousand words / Katie Kaput -- my first poem as a radical mother / alba onofrio -- Beacon, bridge, and boulevards / Gabriela Sandoval -- In this pure light / Cheryl Boyce Taylor -- Queering family / Ariel Gore -- V. Two pink lines (Introduction) / Mai'a Williams -- Step on a crack: parenting with chronic pain / Claire Barrera -- Birthing a new feminism / Lisa Factora-Borchers -- Choice / Esteli Juarez -- The darkness / Fabielle Georges -- Birthing my Goddess / H. Bindy K. Kang -- Night terrors, love, brokenness, race, home & the perils of the adoption industry: a journey in radical family creation / Terri Nilliasca -- From the four directions: the dreaming, birthing, healing mother on fire / Irene Lara -- What does the daughter of a Chicana-Lesbian teenage mom know about having babies? / Panquetzani -- VI. Between the lines (Introduction) / China Martens -- Collective poem on mothering / Mamas of Color Rising (Austin, Tejas) -- Telling our truths to live: a manifesta / tk karakashian tunchez -- Love balm for my spiritchild / Arielle Julia Brown -- "You look too young to be a mom" excerpts from Girl-Mom, a play created from posts to GirlMom.com 2001-2003 / Lindsey Campbell -- Letter to Aymara / Micaela Cadena -- My birthday present / Karen Su.

An anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices - women who are in a world of necessary transformation. The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation, as well as racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice are the same challenges that marginalized mothers face every day. Motivated to create spaces for this discourse because of the authors' passionate belief in the power of a radical conversation about mothering, they have become the go-to people for cutting-edge inspired work on this topic for an overlapping committed audience of activists, scholars, and writers. Alexis Pauline Gumbs was a Black Woman Rising nominee in 2010. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. China Martens was a cofounder of Kidz City, a radical child care collective. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Mai'a Williams is the creator and director of Water Studio which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt. She is the instigator of the Outlaw Midwives movement, zines, and blog, and is the author of the anthology Revolutionary Motherhood, which became the inspiration for Revolutionary Mothering.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-

Martens, China, 1966-

Williams, Mai'a.

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