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• Mothering, Reimagining & Starfishing: A Radical Way Forward

  

  
  FOR ZOOM LINK, EMAIL: husss@campbellhall.org
  DATE: October 6, 2020
  TIME: 6:30 pm
  SPEAKER: Jodie Patterson
  
  Activist Jodie Patterson introduces the concept of front-loading Mothering as a proactive strategy for building better, stronger, more cohesive communities.
  
  “Often when we talk about family and parenting, there is an implicit assumption that we're referring to heteronormative, white centered, cisgender, nuclear groups with two adults raising one or more little people. When I speak of Mothering I’m most definitely not speaking specifically to cisgender women or heteronormative families or white people. I’m putting a word I know well, MOTHER, to the activity of intentional building of people and communities.” Jodie Patterson is a mother of five, author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation and a globally recognized LGBTQIA activist. As a public speaker, Ms. Patterson uses her platform to discuss topics of radical parenting, identity, and gender. When her son announced at the age of 3 “Mama I’m not a girl. I’m a boy” she set out to inform herself, shift her own bias and change the way her community understood gender.
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  Ms. Patterson was elected Chair of the Board of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and works closely with the organization’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council. Ms. Patterson sits on Mount Sinai’s Institute for Health Equity Research Task Force, is on the Advisory Board of the Ackerman Institute’s Gender & Family Project, and serves as a key advisor to Mount Sinai’s pioneering Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
  
  In 2012, Ms. Patterson was chosen as one of Dell Computers’ “Dell Inspire 100”— a select group of world changers in the fields of entrepreneurship, philanthropy, education, and media. In 2017, Ms. Patterson was appointed by the United Nations as a Champion of Change for her advocacy work. And in 2019 she was awarded Most Influential Mother of the year by Family Circle Magazine.
  
  Jodie lives in Brooklyn where she co-raises her children with love, education and family solidarity.