Classroom Overcrowding and United Student Struggles
As I finished the first year of my teacher certification program this past spring, the graduate school I attend announced that in addition to the two year program of which […]
Category Archives: Education
Boycott CPS: Citywide Walkout This Wednesday
At the close of the last school year, despite protest, community organizing, the advocacy of families, the occupation of schools and the outspokenness of staff, Chicago Public Schools continued forward […]
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Femme Power
This is a brief lesson plan for a workshop focusing on voguing, femme power and feminism through movement. In keeping with other vogue studies lesson plans that have appeared here, […]
Two Sickening Conferences Coming Up Quick
There are two amazing conferences coming up in Chicago in the next few weeks. The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Organization have […]
Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: What Oppressed Communities Have Taught Chicago in the Fight Around School Closings
This past Wednesday CPS finalized its decision to close 49 of the the city’s public schools, forcing some 40,000 students to abruptly change school environments, or “welcome” huge new populations […]
Lesson Plan – Vogue and Abolition: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex Through the Ballroom Scene
This lesson is part of a larger vogue studies curriculum, a unit aimed at teaching ballroom scene history to the ballroom scene, other queer people of color, and our allies. […]
To Fight Back: Non-Violence, Militant Feminism and Education
“How do people who are starving go on a hunger strike? How do people who have no money boycott goods?” – Arundhati Roy, Field Notes on Democracy Violence is a […]
Five Things Standardized Testing Makes Worse
I recently (finally) quit a job I had as an academic tutor at a magnet school in Chicago. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, magnet schools are public […]
Respond React: Rape Culture and Hip Hop
Hip hop activist Rosa Clemente recently posted a video response to a Rick Ross lyric on emcee Rocko’s new mixtape The Gift of Gab 2. The line goes, “Put molly […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ratchet: How We Talk About Our Own Communities
A group of good friends of mine and I had a long talk the other night about segregation in Chicago, and the different communities with which we associate. The conversation […]
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