My tagline demands we know our mother’s names. You know I’ll be submitting. And you know I had to pub it. From the mind of vexy Lexy (founder of BrokenBeautiful Press) and the mad scientists over at the Mobile Homecoming Project and the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind:
“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 to the powers that be.
At times, in moments, we as mothers choose to stand in a zone of claimed risk and fierce transformation, the frontline. In infinite ways, both practiced and yet to be imagined, we put our bodies between the violent repetition of the norm and the future we already deserve, exactly because our children deserve it too. We make this choice for many reasons and in different contexts, but at the core we have this in common: we refuse to obey. We refuse to give into fear. We insist on joy no matter what and by every means necessary and possible.
In this anthology we are exploring how we are informed by and participating with those mothers, especially radical women of color, who have sought for decades, if not centuries, to create relationships to each other, transformative relationships to feminism and a transnational anti-imperialist literary, cultural and everyday practice.
Read the rest at the site This Bridge Called My Baby. Submission deadline is April 2011 which is PLENTY of time!