M/othering resistance
BY
feministfuturist collective
November 14 - 30, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, November 14, 2025 6-8PM
Gallery Hours: Fridays 6-8PM, Saturdays 12-5PM, and Sundays 12-5PM
FeministFuturist
M/Othering Resistance
As an intergenerational, multi-racial, and gender-inclusive art collective, FeministFuturist engages with one of the most fundamental human questions and roles: reproduction, birth, and m/othering. We ask: Is M/Othering the most radical human act of resistance in the face of a failing world?
M/Othering Resistance is a multifaceted experiment engaging with one of the most crucial human functions practically, biologically, and conceptually. We honor the lineage of those who pass on wisdom, courage, the capacity to heal, and the capacity to resist from one generation to the next. Sometimes this transmission is intentional, sometimes it’s unconscious or accidental. We are each a vessel, a station in the ongoing flow of experience moving through our bodies, through our lives, through time.
With our inclusive and radical approach, FeministFuturists spotlight resistance to oppressive, heteronormative, cis-gendered expectations and ideals. The collective challenges the limiting visions of society in defining mothering and motherhood and expands its exploration beyond gender, race, generations, and species to new dialogues. We construct a dynamic environment in which to dream, plan, and build new worlds attuned to care, resilience, and growth for all organisms.
FeministFuturist Collective @feministfuturist
Freedom Baird @freedombaird
Christina Balch @christinabalchstudio
Marjorie Kaye @kaye.marjorie
Jocelyn (Jos) E. Marshall @jocelyn.e.marshall
Karen Meninno @kiran_alexandra
Homa Sarabi @netaraja
Carolyn Wirth @wirthcarolyn
Marjorie Kaye
@kaye.marjorie
Artist Statement
Mapping Continuity
Watercolor Brush Pen on W/C Paper
These latest works document an instance in which direct intention is given a very limited role. The veil between inspiration and creation merges and becomes a singular act, in much the same way as a living being is a duplication of certain aspects of DNA and temporal energy. The life force that arises in the work in the form of light, color, and form, is a map of the all-prevailing and mysterious consciousness, the origin.
Jocelyn (Jos) E. Marshall
@jocelyn.e.marshall
Artist Statement
Sowing Seeds
digital video. filmed performance using flower ice sculptures filled with handwritten poems.
Addressing the fear and anxieties surrounding queer feminists and issues of ‘no future’ (Lee Edelman), queer failure (Jack Halberstam), and stealing the future (Sara Ahmed), the performance-poem resists static heteronormative prescriptions of ‘biological clocks,’ ‘spreading one’s seed,’ and ‘freezing one’s eggs’ to sow anew a queer temporal and spatial dream predicated upon collapsing rigid conceptions of past/present/future.
Freedom Baird
@freedombaird
Artist Statement
Here, Love
Vintage family quilt, reproduction quilt, quilted jacket, vintage family furniture, canvas, oil paint
How do we transmit values, ethics of resistance to loved ones? Is it in all those meals at the table, all merging into a familiar smell of onions, pepper, wine, clink of plate, the rhetoric heating up, cooling off. Is it in the walks to school, to the park, the supermarket, the doctor’s office. In those quiet conversations, held safe between bodies in public places. Is it in the hand-me-downs, old clothes, furniture, still with the shape of where he sat and brushed away crumbs and held court, of where she poured tea and fanned out the old photos? Come sit a while and exchange some of what you know, of who you are. If you’re chilly, borrow the coat for yourself or with a loved one. In the safety of our carefully mutual and utterly everyday compassion let’s grow, let’s widen, let’s pull together.
Karen Meninno
@kiran_alexandra
Artist Statement
Kiran has been an exhibiting sculptor since 2005. Early on in her career she sculpted with Indian sari fabrics, making soft sculptures. It was an expression of her multi-cultural identity and the meanings of home in the diaspora. Now, 20 years later she re-visits this theme in the current anti-immigrant political landscapes across the world. The feeling this time is one of celebration of a culture and ethnic heritage that is being targeted with negativity. An Indian woman of color who was expected to bear fruit with children, she instead became a
m/other in nurturing and making her art.
