explore our library collections
Mother Mother’s archival majesties span more than 2 decades of living, dancing, birthing, mothering, fertility studies, kinetic learning, and more. The archive includes
videos of performances, practices, labs, workshops, and communions
audio recordings from acorn sermons, talks, and stories
photographs and screen stills, and photo essays
text featuring autobiographical essays, fiction, and nonfiction
The Library is a curated gallery and soft-time archival portal where members are welcome to explore Mother Mother’s collections. She invites members of the Library to check out select titles weekly or monthly. To become a member and begin your adventure at the Library, get a Library card today!
There’s so much to explore…
Enjoy a preview of our collections at the Library. Each collection is introduced here. Library members receive a detailed catalogue of the current offerings available for check out each month.
Ringshouts
Ringshouts are counterclockwise dance processionals that Mother Mother reimagines from their origins as rituals performed by ancestral Africans who were enslaved in the Americas. Ringshouts were once activated on plantations as spiritual portals for revival and transformation. In this collection Mother Mother features videos of ringshout progressions, talks about the history and applications of ringshout as an afrofuturist time traveling practice, shares movement sermons inspired by ringshouts, and introduces more ringshout practices that she has developed for Dancing Mother.
Membership: Galaxy
Photo by Colin A. Danville
Fertility & BIRTH
Mother Mother shares sermons, movement studies, writings, and recordings that center her evolution as a fertility priestess, her years of service to mothers in her village as a midwife of the long labor, and her devoted labors as a fertility revivalist. In this collection Mother Mother features the stories and practices that grew into protester birth consciousness, fertility talks about recovering faith in our fertility after grief, despair, and doubt, and further teachings about how our star systems correlate to the magic of fertility in our bodies.
Membership: Galaxy
Photo by Eleanor Kaufman Khan
Sacred Nourishment
Mother Mother relanguaged the labor of nourishing babies from her body as sacred nourishment. She affirms that this labor is a holy expansion of the same divine creation intelligence that grows our babies in our wombs, and that is perfectly coded to continue nurturing our earthside babies with milk—milk made by our whole bodies—as their newborn, toddler, and young child bodies are developing and discovering the world. Mother Mother offers wisdom and teachings born of her 12+ years of nourishing one or more babies at her breast daily, especially as it relates to tandem nursing, nursing while sitting with possibilities (growing a new life in the womb), reconfiguring nursing rhythms (also called “weaning”) with older children, and creating a soft life that supports a generative, joyful, and sustainable sacred nourishment practice for mama, baby, and family.
Membership: Galaxy
Sunrise Communions
Membership: Galaxy
Space Activations
Membership: Spark, Star, Nebula, Galaxy
performance
Membership: Star, Nebula, Galaxy
wildseed family learning lab
Membership: Nebula, Galaxy
mothering artists workshops
Membership: Nebula, Galaxy
As a member of the Library you have access to hundreds of archival material from Mother Mother’s years of creating, dancing, birthing, mothering, and nurturing community with the mamas in her village. Learn more about membership options and sign up today!
STATEMENT OF TRANSPARENCY & GRATITUDE
When you register for a Library membership at Dancing Mother you are directly supporting our ability to grow and sustain Dancing Mother and Mother Mother’s labors. The resources generated through each Library membership is an essential support that helps us maintain digital autonomy and integrity as we facilitate our portals with low-tech and provide high quality access to our content without needing to rely heavily on costly, externally managed platforms. Thank you for being a part of helping Dancing Mother to expand and thrive!