ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses how she utilized the practice of cultural and academic motherscholaring, as she raised her children to navigate—blinders off—the reality of a racist, sexist, and homophobic milieu. She presents the concept of mothering, and couch it firmly in Black feminist, critical, and Queer feminist thought, and explains how—for her—the process is not only a feminist undertaking, but an exercise in the application of indigenous methodology—decolonizing subjective reality and framing it squarely within the phenomenological context of the minoritized. She operationalizes motherscholaringas a mechanism of identity formation and illuminate the path that she took to provide her children the tools with which they could form a positive understanding of self in a racialized milieu. Lastly, she offers the voices of my children to provide commentary regarding the outcomes of my efforts and the navigation of their own identity development as minoritized persons.
