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to make the radical practice of mothering visible as a key to our collective liberation. The practice of mothering that inspired us to create this book is older than feminism; it is older and more futuristic than the category “woman.” We are investigating and amplifying the nuances of practices that have existed as long as there have been people of different ages with different superpowers invested in each other’s existence.

Maybe when we say “mothering” in this book, we really mean “the creative spirit” or “love” itself. We find Jordan’s definitions of creation and love and life and power useful; we find her queer, utopian, hopeful and critical articulations of mothering crucial to the questions about and experiences of mothering we explore in this text.

it seems to me that I am always about a most sobering task, the task of survival, for myself, and for those who may carry what I offer to them, into their own lives.