2023
November
Radicalizing Reproduction - Brandeis University - Panel Discussion - Talked on how Reproduction is increasingly the locus of political panic, from attacks on abortion rights to ethical debates about new reproductive technologies. But moral panics about reproduction are nothing new. How can feminist scholarship, art, and activism clarify the forms reproductive governance can take, while pushing us to imagine more radical forms of reproductive care?
Radical Mothering Seminar - Hamburg, Germany - Panel with Zainab X, Nana Asentewa Asafu-Adjel, Marlize Andre. Talked about: African and Afro-diasporic mothering outside of a white, European context.
2022
March
Chosen Kin: Making Our Loyalties - Panel discussion with Claricia Revlon and Miss Major. How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity - such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas - reform bonds of kinship?
2021
October
Radical Mothering - Fluctoplasma conference - London, England - Talked about revolutionary mothering and converse with Black and Brown mothers.
August
Fluctoplasma Podcast - Talked with Moya Bailey about the history of misogynoir on the internet.
February
Revolutionary Mothering - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD - Keynote panel discussion.
2020
November
Educating and Parenting for Liberation - Firestorm Books - Asheville, NC - Panel of activist educators and radical parents to discuss lessons, challenges, and triumphs of parenting and educating during Covid and isolation, uprisings for racial justice, the rise of fascism, and more.
Writing from the heart for social change - HER|visual|STORY Digital Photo Festival - Talked about photojournalism, social change journalism, and ethical considerations when writing another person’s story.
October
On Survival - Unitarian Society - Fergus Falls, MN - Talked about revolutionary mothering, the George Floyd protests, and the movement for abolitionism.
August
Creating New Worlds: Revolutionary Mothering, Mutual Aid Networks, and the Transnational Movement for Abolition - Wendy’s subway - New York, NY - Talked about in what ways is revolutionary mothering fundamental to co-creating abolitionist/Black liberatory worlds? What does transnational solidarity look like in the face of the apocalypse?
May
Revolutionary Mothering, at Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair - Talked with Helen Charman about mothering as a practice that goes beyond gender, and also the radical potential of mothering as a revolutionary practice, of how domestic labour and daily work are radical and integral to activist work, rather than on the outside of like they're so often assumed to be.
2019
August
Photo exhibition: Oblomov Bar, Berlin
July
Revolutionary Mothering workshop: Cutie BIPOC Festival, Berlin
June
BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic literatures, Bayreuth Germany
May
SHIFT a performance salon: Mai'a Williams and woolen lover, Winona, MN
March
Left Bank Books, Seattle WA
Wayward Writers of the Literary Kitchen, Portland, OR
Pegasus Books, Oakland CA
Mama Scholar Conference, San Diego, CA
2018
December
This is How We Survive book Launch, Blue Heron Cafe, Winona MN
November
Bodies of The Desert, multimedia performance and video installation, Outpost Winona, Winona MN
October
2018 Millennium Conference Revolution and Resistance in World Politics, London School of Economics, London UK
2017
November
Community Accountability, Prison Abolitionist Ideas & Cultures, Berlin, Germany
October
Frostburg Indie Lit Festival, Frostburg, MD
Reproductive Justice as Revolution at Winona University, Winona, MN
June
What really makes us safe? Laboratory for Alternatives to Police and Prisons, Berlin, Germany
Revolutionary Mothering at xart splitta, Berlin, Germany
April
Revolutionary Mothering: Love By Any Means Necessary, Civil Liberties and Public Policy at Hampshire College
February
Revolutionary Mothering, Association of Writers and Writers’ Program, Washington DC
2016
September
Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore, MD
June
A Revolutionary Mothering Zine Workshop at Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
May
The Paper Quilt: A Revolutionary Mothering Zine Workshop at University of Illinois, Chicago
Women and Children First Books, Chicago, IL
Revolutionary Mothering: From Zines to Anthologies at Chicago Zine Fest
AF3IRM, Los Angeles, CA
OC Anarchist Book Fair, Orange County, CA
Espacio 1839, CA
Birth Work as Care Work book launch at Bluestockings, NYC
Montreal Anarchist Book Fair
April
Ancestor’s Books, Minneapolis, MN
Mayday Books, Minneapolis, MN
Bookshelf, Winona, MN
March
Revolutionary Mothering Book Launch at Bluestockings, NYC
Revolutionary Mothering at Laura Flanders Show
Motherful Reality: An All-Ages Coloring Workshop at Red Emma’s, Baltimore, MD
Revolutionary Mothering Baltimore Book Launch at Union Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD
Revolutionary Mothering reading and coloring workshop at The Potter’s House, Washington, DC