Resources & Voices
Mother roots e
Transition Town Totnes, UK
Helen Jacoby and I started the mother roots project in 2021 when we met at Transition Town Totnes. We want to collect individual stories and collective themes around the mothering energy that lies in all of us: the unconditional, nurturing, inclusive, rhizomatic energy. We believe it complements the linear, driving force to respond to our planetary challenges and is essential for our societal transformation. We want to make this energy visible through arts and story telling, amplifying voices embodying it. Have a look and share your voice:
Rights under the veil
Germany/Italy
This project started as a response to the horror of the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015 and the rise in islamophobia. It coincided with the opening of the German borders to Syrian refugees and the encounter of rural German communities with Muslims. Roberta Chimera and I started a transmedia project, creating spaces of dialogue and showcasing the work of Islamic feminist academics, artists, activists in a huge variety of settings. Roberta is continuing this important work after I left Berlin two years ago.
Aliph academy
Global/Africa /
Aliph is an educational program and platform that aims to empower a new generation of African innovators with the skills they need to design their own sustainable future.
I am grateful to my incredible brother, Safir Bellali the founder of Aliph, to have asked me to join this fabulous group of industry leaders, creators and change makers.
Some resources around birth, regeneration, ecology & gender, care economics and more...
EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH on ROUTINE INDUCTION:
In 2021, the UK NICE wanted to change their guidelines to routinely induce women who are non-white, have a certain body mass index and who had assisted conception. I did an analysis to look at the evidence behind this decision and found some surprising (and scary) results! This is what I found:
MATERNAL GIFT ECONOMY MOVEMENT:
Birthing the gift economy:
A series of beautiful online salons to take part in. Listen to this beautiful exchange on Placental roots for nourishing a maternal gift economy with acclaimed author Nane Jordan and other wise women
THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OF MENSTRUATION
For the ones amongst you interested in reclaiming women's cycles, I recommend the work of Jane Hardwicke Collings. and her courses. Here is a taster produced by her, you can also find her talk on spotify.
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