Join artist, activist-anthropologist, and word doula Dr. Talia Molé for a conversation into Motherhood Phoenixing, a framework birthed from the language around queer mother/motherhood/mothering experiences aimed at centering motherhood spaces as sites from where motherhood as a social practice emerges. Motherhood spaces anchor the process of learning and unlearning oppressive systems in service of “a moving and doing” that attracts and fosters the weaving of communities devoted to abolishing patriarchal/imperialist/capitalist ideologies, structures, and institutions. This is a particularly poignant response to a timely call—what new worlds are we willing to help usher in?

As our current world systems—environmental, economic, political, social—continue to deteriorate they simultaneously provide evidence of their unsustainability and that “returning to business as usual” is simply not the answer. We need to engage in conversations that offer a much-needed paradigm shift aimed at conceiving new systems dedicated to nurturing our collective healing, reclaiming sustainable ancestral ways of being and knowing that highlight our interconnectedness to each other and the Earth, and above all respect and honor every being’s inherent right to exist and thrive as they live out their authentic Self.

Those committed to the cultivation of these motherhood spaces serve as midwifes caring for the birthing hearth that holds these difficult conversations. It is here that motherhood as a social practice reveals itself as any liberatory action that “leans into and pushes toward” decolonial relations, frameworks, and worldviews.