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New Podcast Episode! Listen to Trina @trinabruin talk at the National Conference for Children of Incarnated Parents. Podcast available on iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud

Founder Trina Greene Brown will be speaking at the Children of Incarcerated Parents National Conference to Sher about the Raising Liberated Kids workshop series with incarcerated parents. Read below for presentation description: . . . “Freedom is what many parents who have histories of enslavement and incarceration desire for their children. As the daughter of a formerly incarcerated parent, and with a connection to enslaved Africans, that’s what I want for my kids. I want them to be liberated.” -- Trina Greene Brown This Ted-Talk style presentation masterfully weaves personal storytelling of a child of a formerly incarcerated parent, who now gives back to incarcerated parents by facilitating liberated parent workshops with moms in prison. Trina Greene Brown, a Black feminist activist personally impacted by the prison industrial complex, is a powerhouse speaker who will make connections between the intersections of mass incarceration, racism, and parenting. She will share her innovative liberated parenting workshop series with incarcerated women on “Raising Liberated Children” for mothers who are incarcerated at a California’s women’s prison. Trina will thread stories about her relationship with her incarcerated father with the experiences of parents currently incarcerated, who rather than being afforded rehabilitation, restorative justice, or support to heal from the intergenerational trauma for themselves and their families, were incarcerated and separated from their families.

On today’s panel at CSUDH, Trina Greene Brown reads a passage from her chapter in the Chicana Motherwork Anthology. Swipe left to watch... read below for full section: . . . “Through personal storytelling of my experiences birthing and caregiving while simultaneously working in the women’s rights movement, this piece will reflect on the inequities and hypocrisies of the feminist movement in the United States and motherhood. My experiences led to the conception of Parenting for Liberation, which was originally conceived with the idea that Black mothers, like myself, were suffering a critical lack of support and suffering in silence. Audre Lorde reflected, “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.” These words reflected my experiences and the Black mothers and women in my life. I took Lorde’s statements to heart and used them to guide me to these writings. This is not meant as a recrimination of white women and mothers, but rather a challenge to #WhiteFeminism to seek the intersections that bind us and connect deeper and support Mothers of Color.When the day-to-day work of a feminist is to ensure that women’s voices are heard, this Black feminist mama’s personal experiences of being silenced and denied access to privileges, emboldens me to raise the question harkening upon the ancestral spirit of Sojourner Truth, “Aint I a Mama?” - Trina Greene Brown

Panel at California State University Dominguez Hills with Chicana M(other)work Anthology editor, Dr. Judith Perez-Torres, and my fellow contributors LeighAnna Hidalgo, Trina Greene Brown, Dr. Gretel H. Vera-Rosas, Dr. Judi Perez-Torres, Dr. Corina Benavides Lopez, Gabriela Corona Valencia, and Nora Cisneros

Focus group training for parent leaders of the Watts Willowbrook community. If you want to host focus groups to elevate and amplify the voices of Black and Brown parents please sign up. Next training is next week in the evening! We need more African American parents to show and participate. We need to know our experiences and voice heard.

I wrote a little something called “Ain’t I A Mama” discussing my experiences as a a Black Mama in the feminist movement which is included in the incredible Chicana Motherwork Anthology. It’s an honor to have my story to be coupled with the incredible mama scholars on this panel at my mom alma mater @csudh. See you on Friday at CSUDH!

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