Join us on August 7th in San Francisco at Cafe Alma for a free community and book signing event centering Black parents in healing and wholeness! Come for a dynamic panel discussion moderated by event host, Maura Bairley, with Trina Greene Brown and book contributors, Dia Penning and Mia Birdsong, about liberated parenting, stretching and staying connected to ourselves and our community. We'll have … Continue reading Parenting Self: Stretching & Connecting
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Celebrate Juneteenth Weekend in Love, Resistance, and Community with us! https://www.care.com/c/stories/17254/juneteenth-for-kids/ We have a joyful Juneteenth weekend lined up this year where we will be celebrating Trina's One Year Book Anniversary, Juneteenth in Bloom, and Black Daddy Day! If you're in the Los Angeles area, please consider joining us or stopping by (masks are required). … Continue reading Juneteenth 2021
โ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ๐'๐ค ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐, ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ค๐'๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ช๐๐ฅ, ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฅ.โโ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ ๐ It's been exactly one week since ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป has been out in the world! We are thrilled and moved to know that so many Black parents, … Continue reading On Writing
Today we celebrate the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth in Black Love with Black families!ย ย On this day I am reminded of two love letters. First, I remember that Black Lives Matter began as a love letter. As Alicia Garza shared in her 2016 talk with students at University of Richmond, Black Lives Matter โbegan as a โlove … Continue reading Remembering Love Letters on Juneteenth
In this moment of mass uprising, where people all over the country & globe are demanding justice & dignity for black lives which necessitates the end of the police & police state, we are reminded and keep coming back to a conversation with Cecilia Caballero (@ceciliacaballerophd) of Chicana M(other)work (@chicanamotherwork) from 2016. Cecilia shares her experience in processing … Continue reading “No More Police”
http://www.paperbackparis.com/trina-greene-brown-parenting-for-liberation-book-review/ One of the most compelling elements of Parenting for Liberation is the freedom woven into its fabric, right down to how you read it. Brownโs philosophy is rooted in the transformation of Black parenting from a style defined by fear to a style focused on liberation. Through her three sections, Brown encourages her readers to take time … Continue reading Book Review
โIn the healing from that breaking apart and the healing from that trauma, we can choose to either become harsher, angrier, more bitter, closed off, and controlling of other peopleโor we can take that moment to see that, even while we are breaking apart, we havenโt been broken.โ โ Maiโa Williams in Parenting for Liberation: … Continue reading Breaking Apart During COVID-19