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Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

Abstract

Red Thread Projects are aesthetic expressions of my placental, eco-birthing philosophies as an artisteducator- scholar with lifelong roots reclaiming midwifery, and compassionate mother-centred birth care. Uplifting “birth” within embodied, feminist epistemologies, I aim to re-vision with the Mother, writ large and small. Since 1997, I have been creating textile artworks with red thread, activating these through performances in nature, where artwork, body, and place become interwoven texts, gifting gratitude to and with Mother Earth. My arts-centred research contributes to community education that empowers birth-givers, while advocating for the embodied, love-infused potentials of birth for human thriving.

Author Biography

Nané Jordan is an artist-educator-scholar with a working background in pre-regulation Canadian midwifery and community social work. Nané ’s eco-birthing scholarship advances new understandings of birth in experience and care as central to human thriving. She received her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of British Columbia, her MA in Women’s Spirituality from New College of California, and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris 8, France. She currently lives and works in the traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, near the Salish Sea. Contact: nanay6of8@hotmail.com

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