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Author: Jaya Ramesh ,
Priya Saaral ,
Bayo Akomolafe
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Imprint: Chicago Review Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.566kg
ISBN: 9781641608893
ISBN 10: 1641608897
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 31 January 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Parenting at the Intersections is a book about belonging. Belonging in the face of disconnection, migration trauma, colonial wounding, and neurodivergence. Belonging in ways that are not always comfortable for caregivers of all kinds to engage in and around. Jaya and Priya invite the reader of this book to re-remember the beauty of difference and the necessity of how to foster and curate our childrens' differences. They speak of parenting our neurodivergent children of color as an act of liberation from systems of oppression--this in itself addresses the root and tends to the leaves of our youth. This book is a love letter and a form of disruption--this is my favorite kind of rebellion: one rooted in decolonial love."" --Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, author of Decolonizing Therapy ""Parenting at the Intersections is what can happen when the primary relationship of parents and children is witnessed with complexity, care, and dignity. . . In these pages we are welcomed into a dynamism of cultural humility and lived authority. Priya and Jaya built for us a space of inquiry where conscious community can show up for every kind of family, where every family can be supported to hold every child in the way each child needs to be held--and where collectives can choose resilient grace, reliable vitality, and committed connection--over simple perfectionism. As they examine the ways in which ableism, ageism, racism, economic injustice, and other layers of oppression press in to interfere with authentic relationship, they guide us to bold efficacy in countering these forces in the most immediate zones of our lives. This is a work of courageous creativity and joy."" --Dr. Leticia Nieto, author of Beyond Empowerment, Beyond Inclusion"
"""Parenting at the Intersections is a wonderful contribution to literature and very needed. Focused on parents raising BIPOC neurodivergent children, the book and its authors invite parents into experience, connect, and grow. There is a pleasing warmth and relational quality that will surely resonate and empower parents and others who read this book. There is much to learn about intersectionality in neurodivergence and this book is a welcome contribution to the knowledge base. The authors cover a lot of ground, and the book includes several lived experience contributions. What a pleasing and informative book to review! I would recommend it to any parent and any professional working with BIPOC neurodivergent children. "" --Dr. Robert Jason Grant, founder of AutPlay Therapy ""Parenting at the Intersections is a book about belonging. Belonging in the face of disconnection, migration trauma, colonial wounding, and neurodivergence. Belonging in ways that are not always comfortable for caregivers of all kinds to engage in and around. Jaya and Priya invite the reader of this book to re-remember the beauty of difference and the necessity of how to foster and curate our childrens' differences. They speak of parenting our neurodivergent children of color as an act of liberation from systems of oppression--this in itself addresses the root and tends to the leaves of our youth. This book is a love letter and a form of disruption--this is my favorite kind of rebellion: one rooted in decolonial love."" --Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, author of Decolonizing Therapy ""Parenting at the Intersections is what can happen when the primary relationship of parents and children is witnessed with complexity, care, and dignity. . . In these pages we are welcomed into a dynamism of cultural humility and lived authority. Priya and Jaya built for us a space of inquiry where conscious community can show up for every kind of family, where every family can be supported to hold every child in the way each child needs to be held--and where collectives can choose resilient grace, reliable vitality, and committed connection--over simple perfectionism. As they examine the ways in which ableism, ageism, racism, economic injustice, and other layers of oppression press in to interfere with authentic relationship, they guide us to bold efficacy in countering these forces in the most immediate zones of our lives. This is a work of courageous creativity and joy."" --Dr. Leticia Nieto, author of Beyond Empowerment, Beyond Inclusion"
Author Information
Jaya Ramesh, MA LMHC, is a psychotherapist in private practice in the greater Seattle area, specializing in supporting BIPOC neurodivergent individuals and couples in having more authentic relationships. She also runs a DEI consultancy coaching leaders at organizations on creating anti-racist culture in the workplace. Priya Saaral, MSW, LICSW, RPT-S is a neurodivergent mama, a play therapist and a parenting coach in the Greater Seattle area, specializing in the emotional wellbeing of neurodivergent children and parents by helping them reconnect to their playful spirit amidst personal and structural adversity.Bayo Akomolafeis the author ofThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences, a professor currently at Pacifica Graduate Institute and University of Vermont, and the founder of the Emergence Network.
