Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer Black feminists of the 1970s and '80s, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines places marginalized mothers 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 and activate a powerful vision of the future. Join coeditors Alexis Pauline Gumbs, ChinaMartens, and Mai’a Williams for a discussion from this movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.

“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. A radical vision, many radical visions of how to mother in a time of resistance and of pain.” —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist

Alexis Pauline Gumbs was the first person to dig through the archives of several radical black feminist mothers including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara while writing her dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism. Alexis was named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World in 2009, a Reproductive Reality Check Shero, and a Black Woman Rising nominee in 2010, and was awarded one of the first ever Too Sexy for 501c3 trophies in 2011!

Mai’a Williams was a community organizer and journalist, during and after the Egyptian revolution. In January 2009, she spent three days in Israeli detention with her one-year old daughter, during the bombings on Gaza, and after being freed from Israeli jail, she moved to Cairo and organized outreach programs with Sudanese teenage refugees/gang members. It was her living and working with Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities, that initially inspired her to become a mother and continues to guide her as she practices this life-giving work called radical mothering.

China Martens is an empty-nest single mother of a 28-year-old from Baltimore. She is the author of The Future Generation: The Zine- Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company, 2007), and coeditor of Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press, 2012). She was one of the founding members of Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore that helped organize collective childcare at social justice events and gatherings.

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