From Knowledge to Praxis with Toi Smith

Toi is an impact strategist and single mother to four boys. She is the founder of Loving Black Single Mothers, an organization creating ecosystems of care centering the needs and the support of Black single mothers. Through all of Toi’s work, she is building new ways of living, being, and caring for each other.  We talk about motherhood and the nuclear family as institutions held up by the patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism. Toi directs us to identify where our issues, challenges, struggles come from, and to then create another way.  Toi’s focus is on using what we have learned and are continuing to learn about systems of oppression to inform our choices. How can we move differently through the world? How can we hold multiple truths and not get stuck in our grief - as valid as this grief is? Who can we be in community with? This is the vital next step in liberatory work.  Toi’s IG Leah’s IG