This volume is a collective offering that extends bell hooks? vision of homeplace as a site of resistance, refuge, and liberatory worldmaking. This volume emerges from a deep commitment to anti-colonial, anti-racist, and matriarchal practices rooted in care, ethical relationality, and community. As we troubled the waters of theorizing home amidst grief, occupation, displacement, and longing, we honored what it means to write in times of uncertainty?when home is not always safe, and when it must be carried, remembered, or reimagined. This collection centres the voices of Black and Indigenous women, 2Spirit, trans, queer, non-binary, and gender expansive peoples, offering pathways for rethinking kinship, safety, and belonging. Conceived as an intellectual and spiritual gathering, the volume holds space for mourning and hope, interruption and renewal. We invite readers to reflect, imagine, and find comfort in the care extended within these pages. Home(place): Honouring, (Re)membering and (Re)storying the Process of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship is a powerful offering. Edited by Jennifer Brant, Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, and Qui Alexander, it takes up bell hooks? idea of homeplace as a space where care, resistance, and healing happen, even in the face of violence and loss.This book brings together voices that reflect on what it means to build and protect home on our own terms. The contributors speak from lived experience, memory, and community. They explore how home is shaped by colonization and racism, and how matriarchal knowledge, kinship, and radical care can guide us toward something different.For students, educators, and anyone committed to social justice, this collection opens up a space to think with others. It reminds us that home is not only where we live, but how we live with one another. It teaches that the work of unlearning violence begins in the places we make together. - J. Maki Motapanyane, Ph.D., Department of Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University Amidst current heightened conditions of structurally induced precarity, this is a timely and necessary contribution towards possibilities for creating more livable, reciprocal and collective worlds, at multiple scales within and beyond the places and spaces of formal education. The contributions brilliantly co-theorize and extend bell hooks? conception of Homeplace threaded through with rich insights on the kinds of care, imaginaries, relationality, and curiosity that are necessarily towards enacting Homeplace as a site of livingness, resistance and liberation. - Dr. Fikile Nxumalo, Associate Professor, OISE, University of Toronto Dr. Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker (she/her) is a Black, Indigenous and Queer woman (enrolled member of the Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana). As a scholar-practitioner with over a decade of service to urban public schools in Oakland and San Francisco, California, Dr. Garrett-Walker actively engages liberatory frameworks to understand the context, self-definition, healing, and opportunities for solidarity between and among Black and Indigenous women educators and administrators. Whitneé believes deeply in collective liberation and solidarities beginning with the intentional centering of love and Land. Dr. Garrett-Walker is the Assistant Dean of Credentialing and Partnerships at the University of San Francisco, School of Education. Dr. Qui Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Trans Studies in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Their teaching and scholarship centers Black trans studies, abolition & transformative justice and education outside of formal school contexts. Grounded in their experiences as a community organizer, Qui views their scholarship as a place to articulate the cultural work they do in relation to their communities. Dr. Jennifer Brant belongs to the Kanien?kehá:ka (Mohawk Nation) with family ties to Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Jennifer is the founding director of the Indigenous literatures lab and an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Jennifer teaches about Indigenous maternal pedagogies, Black and Indigenous feminist solidarities, and Indigenous literatures and writes to honour Indigenous maternal histories, and storied lives. Jennifer positions Indigenous literatures as powerful narratives that humanize Indigenous peoples through multiple calls for justice, and accountability, and extends this revolutionary body of work to inspire resistance, rebirth and renewal. Jasmine Pham is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Jasmine?s research explores the experiences of Chinese Canadian students in Mandarin-English bilingual programs a