Topic: Family
Motherhood: An Exercise in Fear Management and a Vision for Courage
by Aimee Santos-Lyons, Western State Center
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 22, 2012 - 12:49pm (Print)
What if all the grassroots groups who work with the families who are consistently pushed to the margins and thrown under the bus talked about their causes as if they were all connected? What if we worked as if we were facing the same stigma and hate? What if I, in my parenting, felt connected to immigrant mamas fighting to reclaim their community? What if I, in my resistance, understood deeply my relationship to mothers who lose their children to juvenile justice, foster care systems, and/or incarceration?
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Criminal Injustice: Arrested and Detained Parents Are Denied Opportunity to Contact and Make Arrangements for Their Children
by Melanie Tom, Forward Together
and Laura Jiménez, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 20, 2012 - 12:22pm (Print)
A part of keeping families safe and secure is making sure that in times of misfortune, children and their parents are able to communicate.
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I Am (Not) That Mom: Raising a Kid with Cardiomyopathy
Sometimes I want to be "that mom." Not the mom that wakes up and first thing disconnects a tube from her son's belly that just administered medication. Sometimes I want to be the other mom, whose kid grows out of their shoes so fast she hears the cash register at Foot Locker ringing in her sleep.
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Our Mothers: A Lesbian Mom Examines the Mother She Thought She'd Be and the Mother She Is
When I think about Mother’s Day, I usually picture a Dad in plaid pajama pants destroying the kitchen with his kids in a clumsy effort to make his wife breakfast in bed. Mother’s Day looks a little different in our house.
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Mother's Day Poem: A Mother’s Moment of Clarity
by Beata Tsosie-Peña, Strong Families
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 11, 2012 - 8:40am (Print)
My daughters! Remember that the secret of eternity is being in the moment, connected to everything real while breathing the dreams of the past and the future.
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Mother's Day for the Rest of Us: What Mamas Need Can't Be Found in a Greeting Card
by Shanelle Matthews, Strong Families
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 11, 2012 - 8:39am (Print)
The mothers whose lives are not being reflected on greeting cards are in need of something that can’t be delivered, worn, or eaten. They need policies that accurately reflect the reality of their daily lives.
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Queer Mamas of Color: All The Ways People Make Families
by Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, Strong Families
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 10, 2012 - 9:48pm (Print)
Being a queer mama of color, in all of the ways that we are queer mamas of color, means that we have to talk about race, immigration, disability, class, gender, gender identity, and sexuality. We have to name these things because they shape how, where, when, and why we parent.
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Loving So Much It Hurts: Why I'm Not Sure If I Can Be a Mom
The question of motherhood, of raising a child, of being a mother to another human life is so loaded for me that I spend an equal amount of time trying not to think about it and obsessing about it.
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Mama's Day Our Way: Celebrating Diversity on Mother's Day 2012
by Lisa Russ, Movement Strategy Center
and Strong Families, Strong Families
May 10, 2012 - 8:30am (Print)
Mother's Day has a way of making everyone feel like an outsider. This brunch-y, kid friendly version of Mother's Day, creates the feeling that there is some elusive "right way" to celebrate and be celebrated. We want to flip that.
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Dispatches from CDP 2012: Why Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights are Not “Anti-Family”
by Yolí Sánchez Neyoy, Dance4life
April 27, 2012 - 9:03am (Print)
I am pro-family, in all its forms, but just like health care, just like vaccines, just like schooling, our parents’ cannot provide full coverage and protection, so we seek access and support elsewhere too. Why is sexuality education so different?
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