what
we do
MAMAS provides the structure, community, and political tools needed for community healing and grassroots organizing.
Our work includes storytelling as a strategy to further our campaigns; ensuring the presence, recognition, and leadership of mothers & caregivers (mamas) in movement spaces; and providing spaces and frameworks for healing our hearts, growing our political consciousness, and expanding our work with each other and in coalition. We build collective power among mamas in social movements, media debates, and policy processes related to prison abolition, migrant justice, and the decolonization of indigenous lands. We use the power of radical mothering to dismantle oppressive systems and build just and loving societies.
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The Mothers Of The Kidnapped (MOK)
Our current day to day work focuses on our primary Chicago collective, The Mothers Of The Kidnapped (MOK). As a home for MOK, MAMAS nourishes member-leadership development for MOK members through media training, political education & strategizing, participatory defense support, and healing and transformative justice.
Our work is
fueled by
Cultivating spaces for collective healing and mutual support among biological & non-biological “mamas”.
Activating the potent voices and analytical brilliance of mother-caregivers, and fostering the vital resources required to fiercely engage in movements, media, and policy.
Mobilizing mother-caregivers through storytelling & direct actions.
Building on the rich history of feminist of color abolition, reproductive justice, and healing justice movements, we ignite radical transformation, weaving bonds of mutual aid and unity among mother-survivors who have often been pushed to the fringes of our communities and movements.
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