Added Rad Book

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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines anthology, edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mai'a Williams, China Martens.

Find the book in the Rad Mini Library!

From AK Press:

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 see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.

Contributors include June Jordan, Malkia A. Cyril, Esteli Juarez, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fabiola Sandoval, Sumayyah Talibah, Victoria Law, Tara Villalba, Lola Mondragón, Christy NaMee Eriksen, Norma Angelica Marrun, Vivian Chin, Rachel Broadwater, Autumn Brown, Layne Russell, Noemi Martinez, Katie Kaput, alba onofrio, Gabriela Sandoval, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Ariel Gore, Claire Barrera, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Fabielle Georges, H. Bindy K. Kang, Terri Nilliasca, Irene Lara, Panquetzani, Mamas of Color Rising, tk karakashian tunchez, Arielle Julia Brown, Lindsey Campbell, Micaela Cadena, and Karen Su.


I particularly love this poem:


Collective Poem on Mothering

Mamas of Color Rising (Austin, Tejas)


It's Hard

It's Tiring

It's Painful

But

It's Love

It's Joy

It's Peace

Mothering is an act of social justice

Creating a community of solidarity and support

That models the way we want the world to be.

Using that collective strength to challenge

Injustice

And build alternatives for ourselves and our communities.

How are the children?

How are the weakest in our society treated?

Parenting socially just people.

There is enough for each of us.

Let's share

Stories

Food

Hugs

And laughter.

If we can embrace

Ourselves

Our children

And our community

Give and find comfort and safety

Without hiding truths.

Mamas of Color Rising

Our Core Values

January 25, 2009

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