black m(othering
lil friends home base
I have been awarded a 2023-2024 Wilma Gibbs Moore fellowship from Indiana Humanities. I will spend the next year swimming through metaphoric waters, studying black m(othering in Indiana, reading the archives and black Hoosiers across time and space and access, traveling the state and listening to black m(others, making some cool shit together and paying all contributing black folks equitably.
To do so, I plan to leverage the fellowship funds 1:1 to apply for relevant grants and raise additional funding in/with community. The fellowship award is for $5000, $4500 is disbursed immediately upon signed MOU and $500 is disbursed upon submitting a final project report in June 2024. My goal is to find and fund an additional $5000 in the coming months.
Read the full living application, shorter project description and bio. Project activities, calendar, accounting, and updates will be linked on this page. All writing produced through the black m(othering project is powered by @crybyline.
To collaborate and/or ask questions (that will probably uncover more questions), email crybyline@gmail.com. To become a lil friend of the project, see further information below:
📚 black m(othering wishlist: purchases made directly ship to and support research and analysis
💵 one-time monetary gifts via cashapp $elleiswrite: tag these gifts @crybyline for accounting and note one-time gifts also support everyday life-living
🌱 long/short-term gifts via paypal form below: from those able to commit ongoing monthly gifts for the full project duration of 13 months
🎁 lil friends wish list: sponsor/gift a specific need (that is not books and various supplies on above wish list lol) listed by deadline/priority
🔑 lil friends sign up sheet: let yourself in! project updates by short and sweet and semi frequent newsletter, opportunities to engage with the project in/directly and to become a big friend of the project, and some project activity previews
Audre Lorde $5 supports social connections and project communications.
Lucille Clifton $20 supports a black m(othering interview, portrait, and transcript.
June Jordan $50 supports the black m(othering closing exhibition and publishing and one hour of pay for a project contributor (big friend).