How We Show Up
Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
$39.24
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2020
Summary
From Black Lives Matter to the ongoing Women’s Marches, we have had some powerful moments over the last decade that have galvanized and created new, but brief, feelings of community. Many of us, however, haven’t figured out how to spark that feeling on our own, or how to build off or sustain those moments. Many of us are longing for a kind of sugar-borrowing and stoop-sitting closeness we imagine existed in the 50s. Maybe we even grew up in that environment, but we moved away from home for lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580058070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580058078 |
| Author: | Mia Birdsong |
| Publisher: | Seal Press |
| Imprint: | Seal Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 20mm |
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“Mia Birdsong is one of our most important thinkers and strategists for how we build structures to support the families that we actually have and the kinds of families we would build if we weren’t all so obsessed with respectability. This book gives us both the vision and the blueprint for how to do this in ways that feel sustainable, and quite frankly otherworldly. I left this book feeling something I haven’t felt in a long time…hopeful. “–Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
“Mia Birdsong’s deeply personal book calls forth a deeply public truth: that we’re all better off when we’re all better off. Her search for the meaning of community and belonging will inspire Americans from many walks to show up in a new way.”–Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University and author of Become America
“This book is a blueprint to being vulnerable enough to love harder, dig deeper and be unafraid to redefine and expand our relationships. A beautiful and helpful piece of work. “–Tiq Milan, writer and LGBTQ advocate
“This is a the book we’ve all been waiting for about the ‘craft’–and that’s what Mia Birdsong so insightfully names it–of creating community. She’s a master craftswoman herself–gathering stories of such intentionality, honesty, and reliability that you will immediately start living your life more radically and reaping the rewards.”–Courtney E. Martin, author of The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream
About The Author
Mia Birdsong
Mia Birdsong is a family and community visionary, activist and storyteller. She is Co-director of Family Story and speaks on economic inequality, race, gender and building community at universities and conferences across the country. She co-founded Canerow, a resource for people dedicated to raising children of color in a world that reflects the spectrum of who they are, and sits on the Board of Directors of Forward Together, a nonprofit dedicated to winning rights, resources, and recognition for all families.
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