Capitalism has placed us under many spells that influence and limit what we believe to be normal and natural. Parenting is one intimate site where capitalism’s spell is particularly impactful. Often leaving parents and children to feel especially isolated, alone, and precarious—perfect for keeping working people separated and oppressed and for grooming children into docile workers under capitalism.
To kick off Upstream’s new series on Post Capitalist Parenting and intersect it with EcoGather’s interest in Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It, we invited on Toi Smith, mother of four and a Growth and Impact Strategist. Toi’s work centers on doing life, business, and motherhood differently and collaborating with people who are countercultural, liberatory, and revolutionary.
In the this episode-anchored EcoGathering, we will consider what Capitalism has whispered to us about what parenting should look like and what it is for. Join us to deconstruct mothering, fathering, and caring for the next generations under capitalism and swap post capitalist child-rearing strategies.
Recommended resources for this gathering:
Upstream Podcast: Post Capitalist Parenting with Toi Marie Smith
Forget Hallmark: Why Mother’s Day is a Queer Black Feminist Left Thing, in Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Our Role As New Paradigm Parents, excerpted from Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis, by Jo delAmor
Nicole Civita: Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It