
This Is How We Survive
Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century
PM Press
Published on 17. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-62963-556-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume, Mai'a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife, while mothering her young daughter Aza. She first went to Palestine in 2003 to support Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation. In 2006, she became pregnant in Bethlehem, West Bank. By the time her daughter was three years old, they had already celebrated with Zapatista women in southern Mexico and survived Israeli detention, and during the 2011 Arab Spring they were in the streets of Cairo protesting the Mubarak dictatorship. She watched the Egyptian revolution fall apart and escaped the violence by moving to Europe. But three years later, she and Aza were camping at Standing Rock in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is a story about Mai'a and other mothers who are doing the work of deep social transformation by creating the resilient networks of care that sustain movements and create revolutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oakland
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62963-556-9 (9781629635569)
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Persons
Mai’a Williams is a writer, visual artist, and birth worker and has worked and lived in Mexico, Palestine, east Africa, Egypt, Germany, Ecuador, and the U.S. She coedited the anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and is the author of two books of poetry, No God but Ghosts and Monsters and Other Silent Creatures.