How is this any different from historical examples of forced abduction and evangelization of children under colonialism? From Portuguese Goa to colonial Brazil to Canadian mission schools, colonizers have done exactly this to subject populations.

Blood in My Eye by George L Jackson published in 1990 written in 1971

efficiency is the word of a eugenicist

as someone who had a very direct impact on stopping GardaWorld from building a detention camp in Chicago, I can confidently say that we never relied on the cost of the warehouse to organize on why we shouldn't have it and that mattered

transparency works to reinforce a neoliberal order that prizes individual choice and other critiques of transparency landed so obviously we gave the people what they wanted — a replacement idea context is a much stronger place to start from so we can decide how to work against power imbalances

"ripping off America" is also a bad frame or at least one that centers an efficiency argument what are the fair prices for detention camps?

Ghost by Jason Reynolds published in 2016

screenprinting + henna by hand

social media is the place where i take notes for myself, a place where i might mark something happening, a place where i add context to my self talk, sense make and also some of my friendships that i treasure dearly started in online spaces but it's also a place where i am surveilled

i love watching people open this tiny cute envelope that houses this zine and proceed to handle paper like they've never seen it before it makes a mockery of the absurdity of the Chicago Park District

it has pretty much been a terrible, no good, very bad few weeks and i am so glad to have friends and family and art

I'm not remotely in the same camp as effective altruists. The fact that they call themselves "left" is irrelevant. I'm as far away from them as any rightwing extremist. But these cults here are more dangerous in the way they infiltrate various spaces and gain legitimacy.

the zine format has solidified a zine that blooms which will include my own experiences mediating a world with a disability a screenprint design for this baby is next 🏵️

to me, it's a giant fuck up if your FOIA led to the sharpening of the State because it means the State used your actions in its weaponizing it's not a good thing, it's a bad thing

the FOIA workbooks and zines are amazing this week, sewn with red and gold thread 🐲🏮🧧

life goals, divest from email

i just ran into a friend at the art studio and we agreed to do some open studio time together using the blow torches and hammers another friend messaged me to remind me to sign up for a crochet class with her and i am signing up for screenprinting time through the end of may mawr please

okay so i went ahead and made a map of overlapping LSC election districts. who wants to guess the maximum number of overlapping districts?

i made an appointment on purpose for today to talk to someone who also has family history with the war for liberation in 1971 a really nice way to start the ramadan season

i love my people so much

she just read off the assignment to me so she can get help on where to research i pitched the rise of the department store to her - marshall field's, montgomery ward, sears but she chose the rise of the skyscraper and this will be my personality for the next 3 weeks as i take her around town

me: it's ramadan, lunar new year and fat tuesday him: that's so sad for your people me: we're not day drinking anyway him: what are you talking about me: oh i forgot, calvinism

It was a wonderful chunky time

an ex-CPS official is currently behaving in a completely unhinged way while also telling me to not pay attention to details at CPS and honestly, tracks

one of my favorite things about looking through FOIA logs are the aliases people use leslie knope is so funny every time i come across it

there is a white majority school sized gap in where chicago public schools puts programs for kids with disabilities

My boyfriend took me to the Obama Presidential Center as we go to church over near there. He said that the landlords in the area are refusing to renew people’s leases so they can force poor people out ahead of the center opening in June to make room for AirBnBs and rich folks

I'm outside the Obama Center museum tower right now. The new letters -- an excerpt from Obama's Selma speech -- are tough read to me, giving off the lorem ipsum vibes.

the reason chicago public schools doesn't do this is because the principle behind student assignment is to keep white kids comfortable at all costs Black, brown, poor and disabled students are considered violence upon the attending white student

the first time i pulled the dataset from CPS related to cluster classrooms, CPS redacted the 0 in the FOIA release i had to seek remedy to ensure the 0 would no longer be redacted and I FOIA'd an updated dataset Chicago Public Schools has closed 582 cluster classrooms representing 4,270 seats

at chicago public schools, the independent and dependent variables are defined in a way that is wrong

this is one way we can see westernized healthcare in sanitized settings is patriarchal no matter who provides care the gynecologist who took me seriously also gave me endometrial biopsies without warning and no opportunity to take painkillers and also the profession expects women to bear this pain

i could have assumed they were just gaming the numbers but like this is another example of data being pretty much fucking useless compared to like actually just using your eyes and your brains

one thing i love about chicago is that we all go to the currency exchange

how does chicago park district decide which parks have basketball courts?

Being of a certain age, seeing the potential and hopes of what should have been the Second Reconstruction being crushed in my lifetime has been soul rendering. But also seeing communities working to fight the onslaught of disenfranchisement, occupation and extraction still gives me hope.

and i am still extremely unclear if there is a local school council at York High School, the school inside Cook County Jail there is a local school council at Jefferson High School, the school inside the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center i can't find the voting area for that LSC

i've never voted in all of the LSC elections for all of the schools i am allowed to vote in because it would take me all day i'd be going from northside learning center at 5600n to South Loop at 1200s and 6 schools in between maybe this is the year i try it and see what happens

this is the map for the 2026 LSC elections, cps just hasn't updated the coding to name the website i told a friend that i could serve on 8 LSCs and his response "that's ridiculous"

chicago public schools has a demographer her name is Iliana Vargas and she is in charge of making student enrollment projections, writing and using the space utilization formula her department will be important in any school closure conversations, co-locations at cps she has a weekly meeting

working on a project, screen printing how much of the original does an artist need to reference, how much can be set aside or discarded even, how much can be extended to keep a lineage and archive

i'm having a lot of fun with the language in art this morning i'm measuring something out and what does it mean that i use the imperial system, reliant on a government exchequer accounting system guided by weights and measure acts defined by colonial extraction

one thing i really love about art classes is that in almost every discipline there is a discussion of tension and what materials need to be in tension with each other that's before we even get to the subject or design of the art also in jewelry making you put everything in a pickle! 🥒

it's fun trying new art classes with friends there were a whole new set of tools to try (and break) and get used to and i love it

way more CPS officials troll twitter than they do bluesky but i'll say it here too chip johnson should never have been hired back to chicago public schools, it will backfire, i promise

sometimes you go to an archive and become totally engrossed in a proposal called Interaction Effects of Wind on High-Rise Buildings in Urban Areas, 1975

thank you everyone for making a fuss, chicago public schools sent downtown employees to watch the principal putting a written limit on protest activity is chilling and the students are still out protesting this principal has no business being around students

when i study FOIA logs, i notice that sometimes privacy groups file FOIAs that will predictably lead to a sharpening of the State and a decrease in safety for the person who holds the risk it's not to celebrate that your FOIAs led to Flock being as vague as possible about use, kids feel that harm

this translates to showing up, sharing skills, research as mutual aid with the main concern a relationship with people in my community *not* having a relationship to transparency and FOIA officers who are agents of the State

it's upsetting to me that people are mad about ring cameras and their search party ad during ICE immigration ads while i sit and do some research about CTA cameras, there is not the same outcry about the surveillance state in transit, even from transit activists i wonder why that is*