The guiding questions that lead to the creation of A Journey through Care: Healing Justice and Arts were 1. How do Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and API girls and TGNC youth experience care? And un-care? 2. How do t […]
In the first paragraphs of Douglass-Hosford’s Voices in Urban Ed Metro Center piece, she discusses whose integration, school integration is and how in the process reformers, policy elites, social justice a […]
I want to talk about the Blackfoot nation’s (an indigenous tribe) model of self-actualization. In psychology, and particularly educational psychology, “maslow’s” hierarchy of needs is often drawn upon to make se […]
Remind me why do we want (cultural) capital, again? As I read both Yosso (2005) and Rodela & Rodriguez-Mojica (2019) I keep thinking about Audre Lorde’s words: “the master’s tools will never dismantle the mas […]
Ahh! I am also so fascinated by emotions, Kushya. The way in which Freire describes fear, he resists the masculinized, white supremacist, and capitalist connotation of the emotions. I often think about how our […]
One thought that kept surfacing as I read this week: Love is not neutral, it is and must be an act of justice. I reflect deeply on Freire’s words “Whether or not we are willing to overcome slips or […]
Hi Jordan! Thank you so much for your response and questions. Given that white educators, especially white female educators, make up the overwhelming majority of our teaching force, making anti-racism pedagogy […]
I am reading over my response right now and it reads very chaotic. I apologize if it is hard to follow, my thoughts were moving faster than I could type.
While reading this week’s articles, I kept thinking about my high school principal who I spoke to when I went to visit my high school after graduating. I met with the principal, a white male, in efforts to a […]
I love the question that you pose to teachers: why don’t you feel that same urgency for “other” people’s children? I have also wondered about this. It seems to be entrenched in a deep commitment toward […]
My immediate response to all of the articles this week examining the counternarratives of, and more broadly, the role of Black Feminist/Womanist caring among Black women educational leaders is– who is showing […]
Very true– “simply listening to narratives will not change peoples’ lived realities”. You bring up an important point in how and must counternarratives be operationalized to bring about material shifts in […]
