Maia L. Butler, Ph.D. (@maialbutler): "I love this so much. We spend a lot of time discussing this powerful OtherMothering relationship when we read ASSATA in my Africana Autobiographies classes. "

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I love this so much. We spend a lot of time discussing this powerful OtherMothering relationship when we read ASSATA in my Africana Autobiographies classes.

Ciarra Ross

thinking of miss shirley, the black trans woman who took took care of a teenaged assata shakur after she ran away from home in the early 1960s.

“i knew it all the time,” part mother and part seer, miss shirley’s sight and care sharpened assata’s young mind to think of herself with precision and protection. assata writes every lesson from…

Apr 9

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