The political moment we are apart of demands modern day allegories of how our communities are calling back our power. Jamarah Amani is a Black, femme and queer poetess and community midwife whose mission is to do her part to build a movement for Birth Justice. Jamarah’s work as executive director of Southern Birth Justice Network is featured in this mural along with her trans musician son Mikah Amani. The mural was inspired by her poem On Children:
“Mama, why are you crying?
Because my sweet, you are me.
/Exponentially/
The sheer depths of your soul are unfathomable to a fool or a prophet
This tear is an ocean
/and/
All
I
Can
Say
is
Just keep swimming”
This mural is a monumental love letter to our future selves living in a world where all of us have the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.
WINNER: NoVo Foundation Grant Recipient for immersive storytelling 2020 & 2021
Artist: Tani Ikeda
Talent: Jamarah Amani & Mikah Amani
Cultural Strategist Producer: Monica Raye Simpson
Miami Producer: Inoperable
Collaborator: Gaia Street Art
Film Production: Sound Off Films
Partner Organizations:
Southern Birth Justice Network
Plan C
Sistersong
Survivor Love Letter
ImMEDIAte Justice
Reprouncensored
Women on Web
Women's Emergency Network
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