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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982-

Contributor:

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- editor.

Martens, China, 1966- editor.

Williams, Mai'a, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--Social conditions--21st century.

Mothers.

Minority women--Social conditions.

Minority women.

Motherhood--Social aspects.

Motherhood.

Motherhood--Political aspects.

Mothers--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 250 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2016.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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 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 Mondragón

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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on June 12, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Revolutionary mothering.

ISBN:

9781629632476

1629632473

1629632457

9781629632469

1629632465

9781629632452

Publisher Number:

99988538927

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.