From Palestine to Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and especially the U.S. “Mai’a’s ongoing journey is about mothering as a daily revolution, brought into focus by living and loving at major revolutionary sites of our contemporary world.
And most importantly, how mamas create, no matter the conditions, the resilience to continue doing revolutionary work.
It explores the heartbreak of revolutionary movements falling apart and revolutionaries scattering across the globe into exile. This Is How We Survive illuminates how mothering is a practice essential to the work of revolution. By centering mothers in our organizing work, we center those who have the skills and the experience of creating and sustaining life on this planet. This is a story about mothers who are doing the work of deep social transformation by creating the networks of care that sustain movements and revolutions.
Three years later, she and Aza were camping at Standing Rock in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline and co-creating revolutionary mothering communities once again. She watched the Egyptian revolution fall apart and escaped the violence, like many of her Arab comrades, by moving to Europe. By the time her daughter was three years old, they had already celebrated with Zapatista women in southern Mexico and survived Israeli detention, and during the 2011 Arab Spring they were in the streets of Cairo protesting the Mubarak dictatorship. In 2006, she became pregnant in Bethlehem, West Bank. She first went to Palestine in 2003 during the Second Intifada to support Palestinians resisting the Israeli occupation. In This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century, Mai’a Williams shares her experiences working in conflict zones and with liberatory resistance communities as a journalist, human rights worker, and midwife in Palestine, Egypt, Chiapas, Berlin, and the U.S., while mothering her young daughter Aza.
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