What Can Religion Teach Us About Justice?: A Visit to New Day Church
“Loving is always a revolutionary act.” – Carter Heyward A close friend of mine who recently quit her job as a middle school teacher will be attending a theological seminary […]
Category Archives: Economic Justice
Beyond Coming Out: Political Engagement Across Queer Communities
A friend of mine, who is queer and Latino, and I were talking this past weekend about the choice of coming out. Though he founded the GSA at his predominately […]
Represent: Community Over Media
“The more we critique, the less we create.” – Austin Purnell I was watching an episode of Modern Family with a few of my friends the other day, most of […]
No [Marginalized] History Month: Ethnic Studies All the Time!
Black History Month was never something which resonated with me as a student. As a young Black person, it was impossible for me to imagine that there could ever be […]
First Generation Solidarity: Linking Immigration and Class Mobility
My younger sister, a champion tennis player, was recently accepted to a college located in my father’s hometown–a development about which his whole family is ecstatic. My dad, a first […]
Schooling the World: Native Power in Response to Neoliberal Reform
Lois Wiener, among many other progressive educators and scholars, has written extensively about the neoliberal reforms which are overwhelming current models for education in the US–particularly in oppressed communities. The […]
Honoring Student Knowledge: The Importance of a Questioning Curriculum
“Everything I teach my students are things they already know. I just teach them that they already know them.” – Frantz Jordan-Jerome I was co-leading a lesson with my mentor […]
Are Teachers Activists?
My father was a first generation college student. Raised in rural Massachusetts on public assistance, he comes from a large group of siblings, and one of the only Black families […]
Who Is the ‘We’: An Education for Us
This past week at my school saw much of the pageantry and lead-up which precedes the Thanksgiving recesses in so many U.S. learning communities. The hallways were filled with handprint […]
Revising Traditions: Some Thoughts On Capacity
“…And they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood, and never understand that all the while I was quite happy.” – Nikki Giovanni As a kid, I attended a subsidized after […]
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