ABSTRACT
In this contribution, Motta writes/rites a maternal citizenship emergent from the flesh of the raced and feminised (M)other who is considered absence and dangerous to the civilities and order of Modern citizenship and state as theory, practice, and territory. She explores the question of what it means to start not from the subject-citizen of the body politic but from the negated flesh to re-envision a citizenship (m)otherwise. This is a citizenship that brings to thought and text, through our stories and dark wisdoms, how epistemological borders have often been policed in the intimacies of our everyday life by the bourgeoise White woman to enforce the nexus between hetero-patriarchal family/property/possessive individual subjectivity premised on the attempted violation and erasure of Black and Indigenous and all other(ed) registers of kinship and cosmopolitics of social reproduction. Motta brings flesh to this exploration through the weaving together of experiences of Afro, Indigenous, and Mestizo mother/grandmother militants in Colombia and Australia. The disrupts theory-making premised upon critical distance and instead embodies, through the word as world-making ceremonial practice, the cultivation of ecologies of intimacy and collective forms of healing liberation.
