Daily Archives: November 7, 2017

7 Nov, 2017

Toxin-laced Living Worlds

2017-11-22T18:41:49-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora, Performing Diaspora Events, Uncategorized|

Javier has been excited to explore how environmental toxicity connects intimately to the motherhood we inhabit and relate to. She's especially inspired by Mowhawk researcher and midwife Katsi Cook, who below writes of our gestational mothers—the ones who bear us in their womb: Of the sacred things that there are to be said about this , woman is the first environment; she is an original instruction. In pregnancy, our bodies sustain life. Our unborn see through our eyes, hear through

7 Nov, 2017

Why Motherhood?

2017-11-22T18:41:10-08:00By |Categories: Performing Diaspora, Performing Diaspora Events|

We create this piece in exploration of our own lived experiences around nurturing. We honor the different/range of relationships we and other LGBTQ folx have with our gestational/biological mothers. This piece is for our many many nurturers/mothers, including our Trans/(gender)queer/GNC/Two-Spirit selves. Photo from most recent Work-in-Progress showing at Counterpulse SF        Motherhood is such a complicated theme to talk about; the public imagination of what it is to be a mother seems rigid and crystallized. Motherhood is romanticized,

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