An End to Political Policing
Facilitated by Alex S. Vitale
Moderated by Philip V. McHarris
Creating New Worlds: Revolutionary Mothering, Mutual Aid Networks, and the Transnational Movement for Abolition
Facilitated by Mai'a Williams
About the reading group
This is an online event and will take place on Zoom.
Date: Sunday, August 16, 2020
Time: 5–7pm EST (2 hours)
Free, Register here.
In what ways is revolutionary mothering fundamental to co-creating abolitionist/Black liberatory worlds? What does transnational solidarity look like in the face of the apocalypse? We will explore these questions and envision what the past, present, and future look like when Black feminist praxis is centered in revolutionary movements.
Reading list
Mai’a Williams, Chapter 1, Some Thoughts on Revolutionary Love and Survival in the 21st Century (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019), 1-14. [Download the PDF here]
Mai’a Williams, "Radical Mothering as a Pathway to Liberation,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 47, no. 3 (June 2019): 497-512. [Download the PDF here]
About the instructor
Mai’a Williams is a writer and artist, residing in Minneapolis and rural Minnesota. It was her living and working with Egyptian, Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities, that inspired her life-giving work and art-making practices. Her work focuses on how we survive in the face of the ongoing destruction of the only world we have ever known. She is currently co-creating healing and mutual aid networks in Minneapolis within the context of a pandemic and movements for abolition. She is the co-editor of the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and the author of the memoir, This is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century.