Tending to Future Lineage
Our life is a continuation and extension of all that has come before, a new and resounding word in a story still being told.
If ancestry is about family and family histories, it is also about chosen family and cultural, political, artistic and spiritual lineages. Here we lift up different definitions of family, and various forms of liberatory allies and guides.
The veneration and preservation of the “perfect white Christian cis-hetero nuclear family” has long been a central tool of white supremacy and colonial domination. Because of this reality, white families, parenting, caregiving, and tending of our future lineages must be a vibrant site of resistance and reclamation. We uplift ways of bringing our children and families back into interconnection with land, culture, community and spirit are core interventions we can immerse ourselves in.
In this section, we foreground liberatory ancestral practices through the work of parenting and caregiving. We welcome in particular the stories of the families that the current U.S. political administration is trying to erase; narratives about queer and gender expansive families, adoptive families, families with single parents, non-nuclear families, families with polyamorous parents, and more.
