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Index
Praise for Revolutionary Mothering
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface—Loretta J. Ross
Introduction—Mai’a Williams
Organization of This Book: Roots and Branches
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 a 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
Editor Bios
Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
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