There are over 122 million forcibly displaced people globally, and 42 million are refugees—all in search of safety around the world. Among them, women are mothering and providing for their children while on the move, in multiple languages and across cultural and governmental barriers. Their survival and continuance of care is a holistic act of resistance and generative power. The stakes of providing care and connection under the most politically oppressive conditions require ingenuity of the highest order. Through the use of story and song with and for communities in crisis, artists Jasmin Cardenas (United States), Marta Górnicka (Poland), and Caroline Hatem (Lebanon) grapple with matrifocal narratives of migration, displacement, and exile, but also of determination and love.
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