AuthoritarianismBlack FathersBlack Mothers

Should Black Women Lean In? Or Lean Out? Muffy Mendoza’s TED Talk

By Kindred Media

Should Black Women Lean In? Or Lean Out?

At heart, she is an advocate for Black mothers who believes Black parents can be the catalyst for change in Black communities. Muffy runs a local support group for Black mothers called Pittsburgh Brown Mamas. She also runs the regions premier website for reaching and engaging with moms-of-color: brownmamas.com. Muffy is a mama on a mission. At heart she is an advocate for Black mothers who believes Black parents can be the catalyst for change in Black communities. Muffy runs a local support group for Black mothers called Pittsburgh Brown Mamas. She also runs the regions premier website for reaching and engaging with moms-of-color brownmamas.com.

Read more about the black family experience in America on Kindred here.

Discover resources for black mothers and fathers here.

Reports

Black Mamas Matter Alliance’s Report: Setting the Standard for Holistic Care of and for Black Women 

Advancing Birth Justice: Community-Based Doula Models as a Standard of Care for Ending Racial Disparities

Uplifting Birth Justice Through Doula Care!

Books

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction

Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique

Kindred Media

Kindred World began as a grassroots, consciousness-raising organization of parents and professionals in 1996, twenty-five years into America’s fifty year decline to the bottom of all developed nations' indicators for family, maternal, infant, and children's health. Today, Kindred World’s nonprofit mission and vision of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society, are more relevant and important than ever.

During the current climate crisis, pandemic, and political upheaval, Kindred World’s quarter century of investigating and sharing a New Story of Our Human Family is a blazed path to wholeness and wellness ready for others to follow. With a consistent dedication to serve, Kindred World's leaders, contributors, volunteers, and community participants have explored the interconnectedness of the “categories” you will find on this website. This holistic approach – looking for the connections between all of life’s interdependent and diverse forms – has allowed us to discover integrated insights into creating lifelong wellness.

Kindred World, and it's nonprofit initiative, Kindred Media, have explored this New Story from the ground up - in grassroots’ communities - and from the top down - with frontier science researchers and social changemakers. This New Story comes with its own language, phrases like Cultural Creatives, Bio-Cultural Conflict, Grounded Expansion, Harmonic Family Resonance, Phronesis, the Evolved Nest, Original Brilliance and the Ecology of the Child, can be found in our New Story Glossary. If we're going to tell a New Story, we will need new language.

What is needed at this time is a safe gathering place, a sanctuary, created with great compassion to inspire and welcome our imaginations to engage in open dialogue, to create connected community, and to identify resources that support an adventurous exploration of thriving.

Welcome to that safe gathering space.

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