My mother was a freedom fighter
My mother was a freedom fighter by Aja Monet is a 2017 Fiction & Literature book written by TED speaker Aja Monet, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "A love story about the power of art as organizing" (2019), 3.3M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 2 years before the talk.
- Edition: Haymarket Books, 2017 · 150 pages
The paired TED talk
A love story about the power of art as organizing (2019), the TED talk by Aja Monet.
From the publisher
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.