No Se Vende: Gentrification and Its Resistance
We live in an era where claims are commonly made, and largely accepted, that the U.S. has made such significant and irrefutable progress from its past of racial struggle that […]
Author Archives: Benji Hart
Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair This Saturday!
Teachers for Social Justice in collaboration with Rethinking Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union will be hosting the 12th Annual Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair tomorrow, Saturday the 17th of November at […]
Lesson Plan – History Is a Weapon: Introducing the Social Studies
Many of the educators I’ve been working with this semester have been challenging me to think more critically about the expectations and requirements placed on teachers in public classrooms. They […]
Dance as Community Organizing: Building a Vogue Practice Space
I began voguing as a high school student, drawn to the art form because I had so little support and community as a queer person of color in my hometown. […]
Parent Involvement and Community Education
I have been performing my graduate observations this semester at a Mexican cultural school, housed within another larger CPS school. The cultural school was started in the 1990s by a […]
Vogue Workshop this Friday at Columbia College
As part of the Little Big Foot free dance workshop series, the House of Ninja Chicago Chapter, along with members of the Passisas Samba Group, will both be presenting at a […]
Saturday School: Or; Whose Permission Are We Waiting For?
There is a great tradition in Chicago of Saturday schools–classes, programs and workshops led by community organizations and members on Saturday mornings and afternoons. Most prominent and ongoing in immigrant […]
Teacher/Cop: Complicating the School-to-Prison Pipeline
“The classroom shares a genealogy with the technology of the prison.” – Dylan Rodriguez The Chicago Teachers’ Strike represented both a galvanizing and fracturing shift in the U.S. political discourse, […]
Injunction: The Significance of the Battle Over Fired Teachers
Though it is possible that the Teachers’ Strike in Chicago may be finished today, with the students of Chicago’s public schools back in class by Wednesday, many of the original […]
Day 4: Points from the Chicago Teachers’ Strike Unlikely to be Addressed in the Tribune
The Teachers’ Strike in Chicago has been on since Monday, with some talk today amongst union representatives and mainstream media that there may be a contract agreement reached as soon […]
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