Ma Lineal

This is a book of daughtering. Faith Holsaert shows us intimately what it means to be a daughter of multiple movements, mothers, monsters, and systems of harm. She shows us how mothering brings daughtering back into its queerest, most transformative potential. She shows us how to never take for granted who we are, how we got here, and the stakes of how we tell the tale. Read this book to learn important submerged histories, but also to unlearn whose story you can live inside and with what consequences.

~Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD, coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

Faith Holsaert's beautiful storytelling speaks to me as a daughter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who is Black, a feminist, queer, and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Her authentic words create a sacred container that breaks silences, draws profound connections between the intimate and the political, and traverses the complexities that life offers with accountability and love.

~Aishah Shahidah Simmons, editor of Love WITH Accountability and producer and director of NO! The Rape Documentary

Ma Lineal: A Memoir of Race, Activism, and Queer Familyis a beautifully written exploration of highly complex and critically important subjects. Faith Holsaert reflects the importance of truth-telling and the power of loved experience.

~Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate

Ma Lineal is a compelling account of one anti-racist woman's journey through activism, parenting, and queer family over more than seven decades. Especially gripping is Holsaert's time working in the early 1960s South with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a dedicated white participant in a Black-led movement. This is an important book that weaves seemingly disparate threads into a powerful whole that raises questions for us all. Highly recommend.

~Catherine Fosl, PhD, professor emerita of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, University of Louisville