"Mothering the Mother" Book Talk - May 21 feat. Mama Shafia
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The Boston Women’s Fund and New Commonwealth Fund are excited to invite you to a powerful and intimate evening with renowned midwife Mama Shafia in celebration of her debut book, Mothering the Mother.
This is not just a book talk: it’s an invitation into a deeper understanding of care, healing, and what it truly means to support mothers during one of the most vulnerable and transformative periods of their lives.
Thursday, May 21
6:00-8:00 pm
Free
Street Theory Collective
541 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02139
Mama Shafia, a renowned traditional midwife, public health expert, and cultural healer, brings over forty years of experience supporting birthing parents and communities. Grounded in African American postpartum traditions, many of which have been historically suppressed, her work reclaims practices that center nourishment, rest, ritual, and collective care.
At a time when Black women continue to face disproportionate risks in childbirth and postpartum health, Mothering the Mother offers more than insight: it offers a path forward. It calls us back to community-based care, to sisterhood, and to practices that honor both mother and child with dignity, protection, and love.
This evening is about more than learning, it’s about remembering. It’s about being in community. And it’s about asking, together, what becomes possible when we truly center care.
