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Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy

Mon, April 12, 11:10am to 12:40pm EDT (11:10am to 12:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Paper and Symposium Sessions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will highlight the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. We will share diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging our ancestors and grandparents in our own mothering, how historical trauma and violence plagues our past and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy, is how culture and place impacts our mothering (specifically, if we are not on our traditional homelands as we raise our children), how academia impacts our mothering, how mothering impacts our scholarship and how we negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and our role in the academy.

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