One could argue that parenting, for Black women, is an act of political warfare. Women of color-led organizations have been working for decades to disrupt the toxic narrative around Black motherhood, a critical step toward dismantling the white supremacy stronghold—but it remains a steep hill to climb.
Launched this week, Forward Together’s eighth annual Mamas Day celebration is honoring Black motherhood in all its forms and the right to parent. To commemorate the celebration, artists created original card designs paired with messaging that names “what mamas need during Mamas Day and always: health care, family recognition, to live free from violence and criminalization, amongst other things,” said Diana Lugo-Martinez, the movement building director at Forward Together, a reproductive justice organization committed to Black liberation. “We’re reframing the system that’s rooted in white supremacy, anti-Black racism, misogyny, transmisogyny, xenophobia—a system that’s continuously trying to deny us our rights and our dignity.”
[For more of this story, written by Regina Mahone, go to https://rewire.news/article/20...hood-unjust-society/]
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