call for submissions: this bridge called my baby: legacies of radical mothering
This Bridge Called My Baby: Legacies of Radical Mothering http://thisbridgecalledmybaby.wordpress.com/ “We can learn to mother ourselves.” Audre Lorde, 1983 All mothers have the potential to be revolutionary. Some mothers stand on the shoreline, are born and reborn here, inside the flux of time and space, overcoming the traumatic repetition of oppression. Our very existence is [...]
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look. i am not abusive to my kid. not even close. and neither is her father. she is a happy, healthy three year old. she speaks three languages, loves to dance middle eastern style, and explains to strangers that ‘mama is from america’ but she is from bumblebee (the name of her preschool). but, us [...]
...read morewho will survive this storm?
who will care for our children and our mothers? who will stop the genocide of african american babies. when the infant mortality rate for black babies in the states is twice as high than whites and rivals some of the poorer countries in the world? who will not turn their heads and speak of easier [...]
...read morebeing a mother isnt always a choice, not yet.
so, when i was in the west bank back in the summer of 2006, israel was bombing lebanon, and i realized i might be pregnant. my partner was in the states at the time, so i had to rely on a couple of friends to help me procure a home pregnancy test in israel since [...]
...read morea force more powerful
“We may not currently have the might of the Israeli army and the power of traditions confine us in certain roles, however, we know that one woman standing behind another in a line of solidarity is a force more powerful than both.” –kefah, speaking in at-tuwani village, west bank, palestine i am going to start [...]
...read moreain’t i a mama?
ain’t i a mama… you know how alice walker says that feminism is to womanism. like purple is to lavendar. ive always loved that quote. lavendar is my favorite color and one of my favorite scents. well, last night as i was falling asleep after reading the comment thread of doom, i realized: feminist is [...]
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you do not have a right to child free spaces. there is this weird thing in western culture, especially n american culture, where people/adults seem to believe that they have a right to discriminate against children. recently, i was hanging out at a bar, when a friend called and invited me to come hang out [...]
...read morefrom al qahira
:::waves::: my name is mai’a. some of y’all know me, most of y’all don’t. i am a black ndn queer mama to a three year old bad-ass princess. live in cairo, egypt. write for a few blogs like guerrilla mama medicine and flip flopping joy. run a zine distro with my girl aaminah at thaura [...]
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