It’s the Lunar New Year.  Actually it’s my Lunar rebirth.  I was born in the year of the dog.  I am being reborn now.  One of the guiding questions of the M/otherourselves Webinar Series for me is what does it mean to daughter ourselves? How is it different from and related to mothering ourselves?  What are the engendering and ungendering possibilities?

During the Daughter Dreams intensive we listened to our inner children and here is some of the wisdom they brought.We will continue to explore these themes in the upcoming M/otherlands Intensive: Audre Lorde and Daughtering in Diaspora at the end of this month.  (Click on the link to sign up, there are about 2 spots left.)

Enjoy the poem! I recommend repeating this wisdom aloud.

The Child Speaks

by the participants in the Daughter Dreams intensive

“But I just washed them, Mommy!”

-Audre Lorde “Blackstudies”

get your hands dirty. cover yourself in mud and leaves and dandelion petals. dig. become intimate with the ground. leap groundward.

What you felt then is still with you now, what you have, who you have, all you have is in you, apart of. Choose to love.

Play. Play. Play. Make a beautiful mess. Be light. Lighter than you’ve ever been. Release whatever is heavy. Love me

i am NOT too much. i’m just the right amount.

This intensive is part of the M is for M/othering Ourselves Webinar Series, leading up to the release of M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs on March 9th 2018.  This webinar series offers a deep dive into the key concepts of Audre Lorde’s work as a queer regenerative resource.