@dani_mcclain

dani_mcclain has been a member of Linktree for 7 years and joined in May 2019. Resources dani_mcclain has populated their site with include: • Abortion Rights Activists Respond to the Fall of Roe v. Wade, Oprah Online 6/28/22 • Get a signed copy of WE LIVE FOR THE WE • Giving Black Youth a Reason to Live | The Nation, Jan '26 • LISTEN: Mother's Day panel with Capital B, May '23 • Homing Instinct: Letting Go of the Shore, collaboration w/ filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher, Weston Art Gallery April 25-June 8 '25 • Mama’s Writing interview w/ Raising Mothers, April '24 • WATCH: I discussed We Live for the We w/ Mindful Return, March '24 • How Ohio Passed the Highest-Stakes Abortion Rights Law Since “Roe” Fell, The Nation, Nov '23 • My short story "Homing Instinct" is now a short film. Watch the trailer for Lydia Pilcher's adaptation and reread the story in Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements • Surviving Birth, YES! Magazine, Fall '23 • LISTEN: Interview with Luna Malbroux, The South Has the Answers podcast, June '23 • This New Magazine Aims to Be a Home for the Black Left, The Nation, April '23 • LISTEN: I discussed Black mothers' activism on the White Picket Fence podcast, season 4 episodes 4 & 6 • LISTEN: I joined Texas Public Radio to discuss Black maternal health disparities, Jan '23 • On Sister Souljah for The Nation's '90s issue, December '22 • Read my essay in The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook • LISTEN: New 'Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook' brings honest community perspectives Dec '22 • LISTEN: "What to Keep" Raising Rebels Podcast, Sept 2022 • WATCH: Bodily Autonomy and Care with Allied Media Projects, Sept '22 • Criminalized for Being Pregnant: Interview with National Advocates for Pregnant Women, The Nation, Sept '22 • WATCH: Black Maternal Health Panel w/ Evette Dionne, Dani McClain, and Celeste Rios | Loyalty Bookstores Aug '22 • WATCH: The New Fight for Reproductive Freedom, The Intercept, June '22 • WATCH: Virtual Talk w/ Angela Garbes, author of ESSENTIAL LABOR, May '22 • "How adrienne maree brown Held Change and Inspired a Generation of Movements" Colorlines, June '21 • I was Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library’s Writer-in-Residence 2020-21 • WATCH: Parenting from Prison w/ Sylvia A. Harvey & Chesa Boudin • The Nation's Special Issue on Parenting (guest editor) • "How Black Parents Survived 2020" NYT • "The Racial Reckoning Inside Planned Parenthood" Harper's BAZAAR • "How We Survived A Year Of Grief" The Crisis • LISTEN: "Caring for Each Other is Political," The Double Shift Podcast • "How to Talk to Kids About Racism and Police" The Atlantic • "The Freedom and Fulfillment of Home-Schooling" NYT • WATCH: "Mothering & Laboring the Cinematic Revolution," BlackStar Film Festival • WE LIVE FOR THE WE is a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominee! • WATCH: Allied Media Conference "Care for the Future" Plenary w/ Loira Limbal, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Veralucia Mendoza • WATCH: "Pandemic Issues: Radical Parenting" on The Hoodoisie w/ Coya Paz • "Play Therapy Can Help Kids Speak the Unspeakable" NYT • Discussed WE LIVE FOR THE WE w/ Nehanda Truscott-Reid of Soul Mama Podcast • WATCH: Conversation w/ Mia Birdsong, author of HOW WE SHOW UP • WATCH: Conversation w/ Vanessa Siddle Walker and Elizabeth McRae. Hosted by National Coalition on School Diversity • WATCH: Conversation w/ Trina Greene Brown, author of PARENTING FOR LIBERATION • How Motherhood Changed Me: I Put Down Roots, Happily - NYT • I Never Felt Like a ‘Single’ Parent. Then the Coronavirus Hit. - The Nation • How Black Expectant Mothers Can Prepare for Birth Right Now - ZORA • Got a shout in NYT Parenting's list of best 2019 writing • When the Clinics Close - report on Ohio abortion access organizing in The Nation • You're Black and Pregnant. What Should Your Birth Plan Actually Look Like? - SELF • How Black Mothers Prepare Their Children for School - The Atlantic • I'm the 2020 Cincinnati Public Library Writer-in-Residence! • I was on NPR's 1A. Listen: "The Joys of Mothering While Black" • Pleasure & Parenting: In conversation w/ adrienne maree brown and friends • The Stacks Podcast - first half: We Live for the We. second half: we talk books! • The Stacks Podcast - Traci Thomas and I talk The Light of the World, one of my favorites • KQED Forum w/ Tonya Mosley and Carvell Wallace • Interview w/ The Distiller, a podcast about meaningful work • WFPL Strange Fruit interview • Book talk w/ author Emily Bernard at DC's Politics & Prose • The Meaning of 'Motherwork' interview w/ Anna Holmes • I Won’t Let Racism Rob My Black Child of Joy - TIME 5/10/19 • What Is Black? podcast interview • More writing