{"id":361096,"date":"2018-05-14T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/love-on-the-front-lines\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:06:42","slug":"love-on-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/love-on-the-front-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Love on the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/441643110&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Mother&#8217;s Day and everyday: listen to a discussion and poetry by women of color writers and editors of the anthology\u00a0Revolutionary Mothering:\u00a0Love on the Front Lines.\u00a0They dedicate the book to &#8220;all the revolutionary mothers and all the revolutions they&#8217;ve created, because mothering is love by any means necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also hear about a recent investigation into Black maternal and infant mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Maureen\u00a0Mohapatra and The Laura Flanders show, Democracy Now! and PM Press.<\/p>\n<h2>Featuring:<\/h2>\n<p>Roundtable on Revolutionary\u00a0Mothering Anthology, on The Laura Flanders Show with Dr. Gumbs as guest host:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alexispauline.com\/\">Dr.\u00a0Alexis Pauline Gumbs<\/a>, guest host and anthology co-editor and\u00a0&#8220;A queer black troublemaker, a black feminist love evangelist and a prayer poet priestess, Alexis has a PhD in English, African and African-American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/martens.china\/\">China Martens<\/a>, co-editor and\u00a0&#8220;a zinestress extraordinaire based in Baltimore, MD. Her first book, The Future Generation, is a compilation of sixteen years of her first zine. She is also the coeditor of Don&#8217;t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/maiawilliams\">Mai&#8217;a Williams<\/a>, co-editor and\u00a0writer, visual artist and birth worker and\u00a0&#8220;the creator and director of Water Studio, which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and she organizes with the Revolutionary Youth Councils of Cairo.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiadewioka.com\/about\/\">Cynthia Dewi Oka<\/a>, anthology contributor\u00a0poet and &#8220;author of Salvage. She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/victorialaw.net\/\">Victoria Law<\/a>, anthology contributor and &#8220;Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\u2026 She is the co-editor of Don&#8217;t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/44464-special-for-mother-s-day-mothering-love-on-the-front-lines\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mother&#8217;s Day and everyday: listen to a discussion and poetry by women of color writers and editors of the anthology\u00a0Revolutionary Mothering:\u00a0Love on the Front Lines.\u00a0They dedicate the book to &#8220;all the revolutionary mothers and all the revolutions they&#8217;ve created, because mothering is love by any means necessary.&#8221; You&#8217;ll also hear about a recent investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}