Revolutionary mothering love on the front lines edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams preface by loretta j. Gumbs is a black queer poet and independent scholar and selfdescribed troublemaker and love evangelist. Love on the front lines, edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens and maia williams. A collage in honor of audre lorde by alexis pauline gumbs. By alexis pauline gumbs editor, china martens editor, maia williams editor, loretta j. Love on the front lines gumbs, alexis pauline, martens. This book is riven with border linesindeed, one of its conceits is lines, from shorelines to between the linesand those lines matter. Love on the front lines, alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams have acted as parteras communitarias, midwifes of words and experiences.
That was a poem by cynthia dewi oka and you can find it, along with the writers we heard from earlier in our show, in the book, revolutionary mothering love, on the front lines edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china marten, and maia williams. Love on the front lines by alexis pauline gumbs editor. Revolutionary mothering independent publishers group. Feb 01, 2016 alexis pauline gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. Love on the front lines is juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and very brave. This collection reflects, documents, and carries on an ancient and living legacy of practicing and defining motherhood beyond the constraints of the biological. Love on the front lines by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, maia williams, loretta j ross at barnes due to covid19, orders may be delayed. Ross inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and 80s, revolutionary mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the cen ter of a world of necessary transformation. Revolutionary mothering love on the front lines ak press. Alexis pauline gumbs author of revolutionary mothering. Love on the front lines is a powerful and deeply personal collection that illuminates the challenges and revolutionary practice that is mothering in the context of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and imperialism. Love on the front lines will be in the world and in your hands.
Boldly dressing ourselves in the legacy of the revolutionary anthologies the black woman, home girls, this bridge called my back, and the women of colorled reproductive justice movement, we. Join revolutionary mothering coeditor alexis pauline gumbs, her revolutionary mama pauline mckenzie, lactation activist and mama faye harris and activist doula bianca campbell for a light brunch and some deep activities. She is a cocreator of the mobilehomecoming experiential archive and documentary project, which has been featured in curve magazine, the huffington. May 08, 2016 a book cover that reads, revolutionary mothering. China martens is the author of the future generation. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. After the end of the world and coeditor of revolutionary mothering. Border and bottom lines often mark what kind of mothering one has access to. Join us for a celebratory conversation with alexis pauline gumbs, coeditor of revolutionary mothering.
Aug 18, 2016 the social justice book club i participate in just finished revolutionary mothering. Love on the front lines teaches me that hope, love and change are always possible. Alexis pauline gumbs, guest host and anthology coeditor and a queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, alexis has a phd in english, african and africanamerican studies, and women and gender studies from duke university. Love on the front lines is juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and. Revolutionary mothering book columbus metropolitan. The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, antiimperialist, and queer liberation, as well as racial. Love on the frontlines and starting in february 2016 revolutionary mothering. This week, i had the pleasure of interviewing alexis pauline gumbs on her new book spill.
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The social justice book club i participate in just finished revolutionary mothering. In 2008, she published the anthology revolutionary motherhood, a collection of writing and visual art about mothering on the margins, which became the inspiration for revolutionary mothering. Revolutionary mothering love on the front lines alexis pauline gumbs editor, china martens editor, maia williams editor, loretta j. After heading to the waters edge without sunscreen, i now find myself nursing my firstever sunburn on both brown shoulders, anointing them with my own kisses and a few. We are maia williams, alexis pauline gumbs, and china martens, coeditors of the anthology, revolutionary mothering. This month, i explore revolutionary mothering and more in my interview with dr. Revolutionary mothering book tour organized by alexis pauline.
Marginalised and oppressed mothers are at the centre of a world of necessary transformation. Revolutionary mothering love on the frontlines page 2. An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers revolutionary mothering. Scenes of black feminist fugitivity and coeditor of revolutionary mothering. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as antiviolence, antiimperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges.
I lick my lips, encrusted with bits of sea salt, as i text alexis pauline gumbscoeditor of revolutionary mothering. Love on the front lines will be available for sale at the event by charis books and more. Alexis pauline gumbs is a poet, independent scholar, and activist. Alexis will read selections from the anthology and her own revolutionary mother pauline mckenzie will share about her work as a doula and therapist. In addition to being an accomplished writer, gumbs coedited revolutionary mothering. She is currently coeditor of revolutionary mothering.
The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, antiimperialist, and queer liberation, as well. Alexis pauline gumbs is the granddaughter of anguillian revolutionaries jeremiah and lydia gumbs. This is a book and a conversation about how we can bring forth the. With its protean take on mothering, expect to pick up a new book each. Love on the front lines, edited by alexis pauline gumbs, china martens and maia williams revolutionary mothering explores what does it mean to mother, especially what does mothering mean to those of us who mother on the margins, mothers of color, poor mothers, immigrant mothers, queer mothers.
Alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams preface by. Love on the front lines pm press, 2016, is the founder of brilliance remastered, an online forum of support for community accountable artists and intellectuals, and, in collaboration with sangodare, is celebrating 11 years of writing for mobile homecoming, an. Revolutionary mothering by alexis pauline gumbs overdrive. Love on the front lines, which brings my archival research on black feminist ideas of mothering from the 1970s and 80s together with the ways marginalized mothers are recreating the world today. Alexis pauline gumbs, china martens, and maia williams preface by loretta j. Revolutionary mothering between the lines btl books. Revolutionary mothering love on the front lines book contents. Alexis pauline gumbs speakers bureau everyday feminism. 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. This book is a necessary reminder that beyond the headlines, position papers, and generalizations made about mothers are voices from the front lines that we all need to hear. Love on the front lines by alexis pauline gumbs, china. Interview with alexis pauline gumbs, founder of mobile homecoming.
Apr 01, 2016 revolutionary mothering paperback love on the front lines. Alexis pauline gumbs she is also the coeditor of revolutionary mothering. Love on the front lines and the founder and director of eternal summer of the black feminist mind, an educational program based in. Love on the front lines, which brings my archival research on black feminist ideas of mothering from the 1970s. Scenes of black feminist fugitivity duke university press, 2016. You heard from them along with contributors cynthia dewi oka and victoria law. Scenes of black feminist fugitivity duke press, 2016 which was a lambda literary award finalist and the coeditor of the bestselling anthology revolutionary mothering.
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