Also all of this. Arguing with people OUTSIDE your head about the fucked-up shit they're doing in real life, or doing something that the fucker-uppers would absolutely hate, is encouraged on this day! bsky.app/profile/lady...

It’s fucking friday

I’d really like people to know and understand that it’s not just one of VT’s busiest streets. It’s a school zone. This was our drop off time. I could see the accident from my classroom window as our students tried to arrive safely to school. The layers of harm here… there is so much 💔

Thank god for poetry & the poets

The nausea-deep ache-breathlessness-clenched jaw-hollowness-too much coffee feeling of missing someone who is dead. Also maybe just what it’s like to try to stay present in these times

Thursday morning pep talk from the comrade card archives.

Friday-ass feeling Thursday & I hate it

Heading into school today like

words by me

“This is what Israel & its American patron cannot tolerate: Palestinians who remember. Palestinians who will not perform gratitude for the small mercies such as aid corridors & fragile ceasefires…We are the living refutation of their narrative. Our very existence, loud & unapologetic, is the crime.”

Reminding myself that hope is not on offer from Uber Eats; it’s generated through wrestling with the world as it is, reshaping it, in small ways & large, into the world we can imagine, & which we occasionally glimpse in the process.

Hope is something you do

It’s too fucking early for it to be this late

Reminding myself that hope is not on offer from Uber Eats; it’s generated through wrestling with the world as it is, reshaping it, in small ways & large, into the world we can imagine, & which we occasionally glimpse in the process.

I reread this every quarter or so and it's already in the draft of a maybe book. That's how much this preface means to me.

Thank god for poetry & the poets

Join us on March 16 to learn about MOVE history & a local curriculum project. Explore how the government’s willingness to bomb schoolchildren, whether in Iran today or in the Philadelphia neighborhood of MOVE decades ago, reveals patterns of state violence. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/on-a-mo...

New flowers for mama.

Kids get really into reading/analyzing these docs. Lots of different registers of, “Wait, what?!” This one gets a lot of, “Wait, what?! That is so inane.”

Textbooks say little of this FBI role in U.S. history, but it’s essential background for today. High school teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson using COINTELPRO primary docs. Students are gripped by docs. Free ⬇️ for grades 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/co...

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

God I love this so much. (From Elleza Kelley, quoted in Robin Kelley's Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams in the Boston Review)

Spring forward, boy genius

So grateful for Forest Park.

Also, today. I love them so.

"Her detention has devastated her family: She’s the primary caretaker of her husband, who suffered a stroke in December & recently had heart surgery. & she’s the mother of 2 teen children, who are trying simultaneously to care for their father, go to school & deal with their mom’s immigration case."

i tried and failed several times to write a comment here. just unspeakably horrific.

Nothing novel but thinking this morning about the way Gaza (2023) primed the population to move on quickly (if it registers at all) from the U.S.’s obliteration-by-bomb of hundreds of children at school.

You won't be able to fix it all. You will be able to love. - Helms Jarrell

Doing my part for morale by making bagels for my work comrades this morning.

Do not be misled into passivity either by a false security (they don't mean me) or by despair (there's nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it. —Audre Lorde

Morning pep talk

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

One billion a day on the war on Iran.

Good morning teachers. It is only March. Drink water. Eat real food. If you can, lock your door for 15 minutes at lunch to breathe, stretch, nap, whatevs. Don't forget the healing power of 5 minutes of fresh air. We still have many rivers to cross. Let love be our foundation.

AI in schools breaks my tender, already-broken heart, a little bit more every day.

Regarding AI, again & again, I think of the Robin Kelley line: revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers but a process that can and must transform us. Read to be transformed; write to be transformed; make art to be transformed.

This morning’s writing meditation was on the fact that Hansberry died at 34.

There's a lot of opportunities for wonder taking place right outside our windows! A couple fresh photos for you, hoping you have some peace today 🪶

“I am sick of poverty, lynching, stupid wars & the universal mistreatment of my people & obsessed with a rather desperate desire for a new world…” From the comrade card archives.

Holy moly — 10 years! How???

By Coyote Snout: www.instagram.com/p/DMTUqB0uDxW/

Need

OK kids, let’s talk about a man named Mohammad Mossadegh & what it means to nationalize an industry…

For my birthday, I asked my best friend to make me a Gen X playlist from our child/teenhood. I love that it includes both George Michael and Sweet Honey in the Rock, lol.

OK poets, what’s a group of ghosts called?

From the comrade card archives.

“…the version of McCarthyism we offer our students should restore the powerful and inspiring stories of the activists and organizations who were its victims.”

#tdih 1954: Green Feather Movement launched. Creative student effort to expose & resist #RedScare attempt by Indiana Textbook Commission to ban Robin Hood from all school books for "promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor." 🧵 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gr...

What a time to be a social studies teacher, a memoir