To launch the current journal, Mothers and Daughters, the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) present the 10th installment of our 2008 Mother Outlaws Speaker Series:
Feminist Mother Lines: Connections and Dis/Connections. An Evening of Discussion, Poetry and Visual Art
When: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:00pm-10:00pm
Where: The Ralph Thornton Centre, Toronto
Featured Speakers:

• Linn Baran (Host and Mother Outlaws Coordinator), “Mother Outlaws: Connecting with a Feminist Community in the Mother’hood”
• Fiona J. Green (Chair of the Dept. of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg), “Matroreform: Feminist Mothers and their Daughters Creating Feminist Motherlines”
• Laura Lewis (Professor in the School of Social Work at Western University), “Accessing the Mother Within: Midlife Daughter’s Use of Maternal Belongings in Mourning”
• Tamara Toledo (Chilean born Toronto visual artist, curator and educator), “My Guardian Angel: The Uncertainty of Exile and Memory in Witnessing a Mother’s Illness”

In addition, the evening will include a celebration of poetry by, about and for mothers … “ mother lines“ , … including the winners of ARM’s 2008 Literary Contest on the theme of mothers and daughters.
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Room 726, Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Tel: 416.736.2100 x 60366
Fax: 416. 736.5766
Email: arm#yorku.ca
Website: www.yorku.ca/arm
Linn Baran,
Mother Outlaws Coordinator, ARM
linnbaran#sympatico.ca