Hi Reader,

There is a quote that I refer to freqeuently in my work:

This is it. This is what mothering is all about.

The activist and scholar bell hooks observed that the homeplace was a site of revolution. I believe it is time to re-examine motherhood as a socially constructed institution, so that we might begin to re-define motherhood as a site of personal liberation for the mother and social justice revolution for the world.

I picked up the book Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines a few years ago, and was moved by all the different ways the various authors and contributers reflected this idea of motherhood as a site of personal liberation back to me. As a collection of essays, poetry, and art, it's the kind of book that can fall open to any page and still inspire and delight (an excellent choice for busy moms who may not have the kind of focused attention required for some books!)

My friend Amanda Radan and I are hosting a live discussion this afternoon about the book, but also about this idea of the revolutionary mothering as well. If this is a topic that interests you, we’d love to have you join us!

"Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines is an anthology that centers mothers of color and marginalized mothers’ voices—women who are in a world of necessary transformation. The challenges faced by movements working for antiviolence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation, as well as racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice are the same challenges that marginalized mothers face every day. Motivated to create spaces for this discourse because of the authors’ passionate belief in the power of a radical conversation about mothering, they have become the go-to people for cutting-edge inspired work on this topic for an overlapping committed audience of activists, scholars, and writers. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together."

To join this free conversation, visit the Mother Circle Book Club event page: April Book Club - Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and click Register. We’ll be meeting today at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT and I hope to see you there!

In mothering solidarity,

Susie Fishleder

PS. (Don't worry if you haven't read the book, if you're at all interested in discussing the work of mothering, I promise you'll want to be there!)

​www.susiefishleder.com​