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Motherhouse Starter Series from Land Justice Futures
As Spring’s plantings have turned into Summer’s harvest, Land Justice Futures has been inviting you to deepen your roots alongside us in both Mother Law and Complicit No More, traditions and movements stewarded by the Indigenous movement leaders who advise us.
These movements call us into a wider and deeper approach to ecological and racial repair—an approach that extends land justice to the paradigm-shifting cultural and structural change we must create for the future of life with our beloved Earth.
(If you missed their first free hour-long Introduction to Mother Law and Complicit No More, you can come to the next, on Monday, August 19 at 4pm ET (3pm CT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT). Register here.)
Now, Autumn is on the horizon—and with it, the launch of the Motherhouse Starter Series. After months of planning, the details of the program are finally available.Here are just a small sample of the 15 seasoned visionaries joining us:
- Mommabear, Condoled Bear Clan Mother of the Mohawk Nation and steward of the Mother Law tradition (Session 1)
- Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining, (Diné) activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker (Sessions 1 & 4
- Sarah Augustine (Pueblo/Tewa), Author, activist, and co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery (Session 2)
- Max Dashu, feminist historian, artist, and author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700–1100 (Session 4)
- Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Black womanist theologian and author of Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter (Session 6)
- Michelle Schenandoah (Oneida) speaker, writer, thought leader, founder of the organization Rematriation and Complicit No More. Presented as a spiritual advisor to the Pope in the First Nations Delegation at the Vatican that prompted his apology regarding Indian Residential Schools. (Sessions 1 & 7)
In addition to the faculty: There is a Theological Council!
Along with the Land Justice Futures team and our faculty, our Theological Council will be there to find opportunities to connect to the spiritual, emotional and somatic side of the work, in ways that are accessible to people of all spiritual affiliations.
See the full list of faculty and theological council members here on the info and registration page.