Parenting for Liberation. Trina Greene Brown

Parenting for Liberation - Trina Greene Brown


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      Published in 2020 by the Feminist Press

      at the City University of New York

      The Graduate Center

      365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406

      New York, NY 10016

       feministpress.org

      First Feminist Press edition 2020

      Copyright © 2020 by Trina Greene Brown

      All rights reserved.

ImageThis book is supported in part by a grant from the NoVo Foundation.This book was made possible thanks to a grant from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, used, or stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First printing June 2020

      Cover design and interior art by Amir Khadar

      Photos throughout by Jayia Kim

      Text design by Drew Stevens

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this title.

      ISBN 978-1-936932-84-9

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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      This book is dedicated to my daddy, Timothy Greene (9/20/1958–1/14/2020).

      It‘s because of the love and power you instilled in me that I am the liberated parent I am.

       Contents

       Introduction

       About This Guide

       Section One: (Re)connection to Self

       Story 1: Breaking Apart as a Parent

       Story 2: Shifting Away from Tough Love

       Story 3: Black Fatherhood

       Story 4: Finding a Village: How to Build a Black Community

       Story 5: Watering Your Creativity

       Section Two: (Re)connection to Our Children

       Story 6: Family Practices: Open Communication and Family Agreements

       Story 7: Shifting from Rules to Agreements

       Story 8: Conversations about Sex(uality) and Consent

       Story 9: Conversations about History and Oppression

       Story 10: Underground Railroad Museum

       Story 11: Kitchen Convos

       Story 12: No More Police

       Section Three: (Re)connection to Community

       Story 13: Expansive Family Community

       Story 14: Communities of Faith

       Story 15: Global Communities

       Story 16: Exploring Liberated Educational Spaces

       Story 17: Visioning Liberated Schools

       Story 18: Imagining Liberated Futures

       Story 19: Movement Communities

       Story 20: Parenting Communities

       Conclusion

       Notes

       Glossary

       Hosting a #LiberatedParent Gathering

       Resources for Further Reading

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also Available from The Feminist Press

       About The Feminist Press

      Introduction

      In 2014, when my son was five years old, it seemed like every time I watched the news, I saw another Black person being murdered or impacted by state violence. It wasn’t only adult men and women, but young Black children’s lives that were (and still are) being taken by those sworn to “protect and serve.” The recurring images of Black bodies left in the streets after being shot by police (such as Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014 whose lifeless body lay in the street for four hours), coupled with the historical legacy of Black bodies hanging after lynchings, compounded my fears as a Black parent. Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and Tamir Rice—are contemporary Emmett Tills. I became worried that I would become a modern-day Mamie Till-Mobley, a mother-turned-activist after her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett Till, was murdered in the summer of 1955 in Mississippi when Carolyn Bryant Donham falsely accused him of whistling at her. Mamie is a foremother to the many modern-day “mothers of the movement,” all of whom are compelled by grief to share their children’s deaths publicly with the world; it is a “club” that many Black mothers are fearful that


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