Ebook: Revolutionary mothering: love on the front lines

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 de la Raza, and remembering / Esteli Juarez -- 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 a radical / Tara Villaba and Lola Mondragón -- My son runs in riots / Christy NaMee Eriksen -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.;"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 se. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together." -- back cover.