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  Note: This interview was recorded in 2018. Transcription: [music] Welcome to the Mothers on the Frontline Podcast. Mothers on the Frontline is a nonprofit organization, founded and run by mothers of children with mental illness to promote caregiver healing and children’s mental health justice through storytelling. Our vision is a world in which mental […]

This episode of the Conversations Between Friends series was recorded June 29, 2020.

In this episode of the Conversations Between Friends Series, we discuss punitive systems, including policing and schools, and the frameworks and assumptions underlying their policies.   Terminology: IEP – Individualized Education Plan – the document that determines the accommodations and supports for a particular student in special education. Ontology – theory of being, framework of […]

In this episode we discuss: what it means to be an ally the difference between performative and authentic allyship how allyship differs from friendship and being a coalition partner stigma jumping vs intersectional activism and advocacy Terms: Allyship – An active, consistent, and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person in a […]

In this episode we have a conversation about defunding the police: what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and how the phrase raises different emotions in people depending on their personal experiences with the police and racism. How decades of consistent and pervasive defunding of community programming, healthcare, and education has harmed communities. We focus […]

In this episode, the founders of Mothers on the Frontline discuss grief, racial privilege, policing, and the performativity of emotion. Families and communities are grieving right now. We are grieving the deaths of over 100,000 Americans to Covid-19, which has disproportionately affected Black and Brown communities. We are grieving ongoing and countless losses of African-American […]