ABSTRACT
In response to the diverse challenges that we faced as Motherscholars of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the varied positionalities we occupy as faculty members on the tenure spectrum, we began to meet as a collective to seek meaning from our lives in these perilous times and to offer each other holistic support for the many roles we fulfill. As Motherscholars working from within the colonial settler, white supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal society, while employing the power of a restorative circle and abuelita epistemologies, we have asked: How might invoking ancestral epistemologies as a collective translate into self-preservation and transformation in the coronavirus age? Our focus is on the past as a foundation to remember what has happened to our ancestors, to (re)member their experiences as a sustaining practice in the present, and to re-member ourselves and our communities anew as a result.
