This Bridge Called My Baby: Legacies of Radical Mothering “We can learn to mother ourselves.” Audre Lorde, 1983 All mothers have the potential to be revolutionary. Some mothers stand on the shoreline, are born and reborn here, inside the flux of time and space, overcoming the traumatic repetition of oppression. Our very existence is disobedience [...]

by maia aka guerrilla mama for the past year i have not been a community organizer.  and in that time i have thought a lot about what is community, what does it mean, and what is its value. and one of the things that i have come to see is that for me, community is [...]

I see the wisdom of eternities in ample thighs belying their presence as adornments to the temples of my sisters old souls breath in the comfort of chocolate thickness that suffocates Africa ’s angels who dance to the rhythm of the universe’s womb though they cannot feel its origins in their veins Blessed am I [...]

Because Michigan can never just leave well enough alone, can it? I found out from my acupuncturist that the state of Michigan is considering requiring it’s citizens to get a doctor’s referral to go to an acupuncturists. So, in other words, rather than hearing from a friend that she went to acupuncture and that person [...]

If you are a mami of color who is raising a son: how do you teach your son about violence and masculinity? what do you teach your son about violence against women? what strategies have you (and he) come up with to confront gender based violence? what advice do you have for other mamis of [...]

by bfp: the thought of being hungry scares me. it terrifies me, actually. when i forget to eat a meal or don’t have the time or have a changing body that requires an adjustment period (i.e. pregnancy, depression, etc), and i am forced to spend time recognizing how hungry i am, i spend half of [...]

Including the amazing so much in love with her ROSE!!!!!! Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares proudly presents the premiere of: BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead because we refuse to forget you Featuring: Nalo Hopkinson Charleston Chu E. Rose Sims SoliRose Nico Dacumos Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha [...]

I was talking with somebody about the cult of personality that exists in so many communities and how that cult so often allows things like abuse and violence to go excused (i.e. Roman Polanski)–but at the same time, how that cult of personality often puts a person in the position of “Esteemed Holy Savior Writer” [...]

via occasional contributer to this blog, Wheel Chair Dancer. The article says you are working as hard as you can to get back as much as you can. As you are doing all that PT and rehab, can I offer you a glimpse of my life as a disabled dancer? The most powerful moment of [...]

Wheelchair Dancer is one of my favorite bloggers ever of all time. She’s already posted on the (re)thinking walking series before, so imagine how honored and thrilled I was to get her email saying she had another essay? WCD says she isn’t sure this is *quite* a rethinking walking post. I say…how could it not [...]