Artist Tanya Nixon-Silberg asked 14 mothers of color what phrases they heard growing up and what they say to their children now. The result is a textile project that explores what it means to decolonize parenting.
Artist Tanya Nixon-Silberg sews a phrase heard in childhood to a burlap tapestry for"Mother Tongue."
This exchange became the bedrock for Nixon-Silberg's"Mother Tongue," a textile project that explores some of the difficult conversations about being a mother of color."Mother Tongue" is a part of an exhibit called"," curated by Catherine LeComte Lecce. With a focus on the theme of motherhood, the show features other artists like Alison Croney Moses and Zahirah Nur Truth. It runs through July 14 at MassArt's SoWa gallery.
One of the sayings that graphic designer and artist Annika Sarin often heard was,"What will people say?" It wasn't something that her parents necessarily said"It's a very common saying in South Asian homes," Sarin says."It was a large part of our childhood, wondering what would people say from a colonial lens."
Though mothers of color may not intend too, they sometimes replicate or perpetuate Western or dominant cultural standards when it comes to their children."There's very little space where you can interrogate white supremacy within parenthood," says Nixon-Silberg."I wanted to start doing that."
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