The headline of this article is becoming a theme of the higher ed movement and the anti-authoritarian movement in general: rank-and-file folks are forging ahead of our nominal "leaders."

This really feels like a defining post of our time

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Matching up to 2,500 USD to Immigrant Defenders Law Center, for the first people to DM or reply with receipts. They're EIN 47-4473312 for quickly looking up if you have a DAF.

The issue for many is not the genocide itself, but the fact that we’re talking about it. They want an event of such violent, brutal, and bloody scale to go unmentioned, undiscussed, uncriticized, and unanalyzed. Because their feelings are fragile, we are expected to stay silent!

Why are we using technology to pursue racist and ecologically disastrous forms of plagiarism (AI)? I just want technologies that ensure smoke alarms don’t beep in the middle of the fucking night!

Collage/ painting by 6-8 yr old students inspired by José Ramírez’ work, LA artist. We read his books, studied his work, & sketched before creating a plant/animal on black paper w/ oil pastels. Kids used acrylic paint on canvas & re-outlined plants/animals & abstract shapes w/ oil pastels. #edusky

This is really important for teachers to be aware of as we speak with families considering having their children assessed. #edusky

I’m proud of the student thinking & work in my latest article in Rethinking Schools magazine - subscribe to this valuable resource! If you’re interested in using #primarysources & music to build empathy & support perspective-taking, read: rethinkingschools.org/articles/wha... #duallanguage #edusky

Rally and March this Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles #handsoff our students #resist #edusky

The most real fortune ever! #twentytwentyfive #duallanguage #edusky 8-year olds are the smartest

1/2 My spring issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social arrived yesterday! In spite of everything, our little magazine keeps on keepin' on. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

LA folks! Wanna stop scrolling and start singing? Be in community with my drop-in, no-commitment #chorus. All identities, levels of experience, and ages are welcome. Email [email protected] for exact location in LA. You can follow onwardvoices on IG too.

hi, cis folks in cali! there’s a thread here about AB 89, cali’s own anti trans sports ban. call your rep & tell them “trans people belong in society.” dems like gavin newsom are floating test balloons about trans rights—again/still. this going down in flames is a message. tap in. call. please. ⬇️

Must-read book for every university president

The world’s chaotic but reading grounds us. Pitu le baila al mar is the story of an afrolatina girl who loves to dance. She navigates challenges w/ 2 loving mothers who affirm that any body type can dance. Perfect story to discuss family structure, body stereotypes, & identity. #duallanguage #edusky

#DidThisToday Entered public comments on the executive orders barring trans people from using their correct names and gender markers on their passports

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Looking for a ways to take a break from scrolling and be in community in LA? Sing with my drop-in, no commitment chorus. All identities, level of experience, and ages are welcome. Email [email protected] for exact location in LA. You can follow onwardvoices on IG too.

As an educator, I’m striving to humanize and highlight folks who are being dehumanized and othered. #Readalouds are an amazing tool. This is a great read about unhoused people. Read about trans people, BIPOC, immigrants, activists, poor people… #edusky

The world’s a cliff crumbling into the sea, but we have books. Una historia diferente is about a child trying to understand unhoused people in her community. This conversation starter can help launch a canned food drive, care packages for unhoused people, volunteering opportunities… #edusky #langsky

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of w magazine: thread

In an effort to share small acts of resistance, I’m going to share some beautiful #readalouds that my #duallanguage students loved & that sparked fruitful conversations. My Brother is Away/Mi hermano está lejos is about a girl whose brother is incarcerated. Read on to hear student ideas. #abolition

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

If you’re looking for a way to be in community in LA, sing with my drop-in, no commitment chorus. All identities, level of experience, and ages are welcome. Email [email protected] for exact location in LA. You can follow onwardvoices on IG too.

“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.” -Audre Lorde, 1977 (Sister Outsider, Crossing Press,1984) #everynightapoem #BlackHistoryMonth

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

Educators! Another Civics for All Comics Group comic to help your students contextualize the current moment, Historias de Resistencia #1! art Louie Chin & Gabs Contreras, cover art @jgonzo.bsky.social, & story/lettering @henrybarajas.bsky.social! Download here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Returning to school & holding Mary Oliver’s words in my heart. “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world… It could mean something. It could mean everything.”

Le sigh

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

Just donated and shared on social media. Donate or foster if you can. I’m cuddling my dog and so grateful to be safe at home with her in LA.

Happy new year! Divesting from Amaz*n & its companies is 1 small thing we can do in addition to community building & organizing. If you use goodreads, I recommend switching to The StoryGraph - it has great recs & interesting ways to visualize your reading habits. www.thestorygraph.com

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!

Happy new year! Reflecting on this quote from Christina Sharpe @hystericalblkns.bsky.social this morning: I’ve been revisiting what beauty as a method might mean or do: what it might break open, rupture, make possible or impossible. How we might carry beauty’s knowledge with us and make new worlds.

Absolutely gorgeous conversation about our interdependence with non-human beings and the meaning of intelligence. Listen if you’re in need of some grounding and light this week. emergencemagazine.org/interview/th...

Good morning #edusky and #langsky. Enjoy this utterly delightful poem written by a 7 -year-old. My students have been learning about ritmo, onomatopeya y personificación. I’m totally tickled by this kid’s voice and the conceit. Teach poetry! Let kids write about what they want.

Recently, I’ve read many damning stories about malpractice in the medical world here & elsewhere. As an educator operating in a deeply broken system of higher & lower ed, I have thoughts. There are principled doctors & bad actors in healthcare. There are principled educators & bad actors in ed.

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1... 👑👑👑

each winter for the past 3 years, I've offered this personal writing workshop for educators needing a space for processing, healing, and community. applications for this winter are open now. come write and heal with us, fam. 💜 bit.ly/trulylight

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... This episode was really heartening. Sarah McBride is so smart and her grounded optimism is helpful for me. Check it out—her both/and thinking may let a little light in for you too.

I run a no-commitment, drop-in #chorus for all identities, levels of experience, abilities, and genders in Los Angeles. We usually meet outdoors the first Sunday of the month. All are welcome. Email [email protected] for more information www.instagram.com/p/DDCzW_pSFk...

Some writing about this from AI ethicists for folks who are curious: www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...

Note to self

Here’s the Play-Doh Vocabulary Dance—engaging & appropriate for generating creative movement for kinder through adults. I structure all creative movement lessons in this way: warm-up, exploration, composition, and presentation & feedback.

New followers: I’m interested in joyful & expansive ideas about language& knowledge. I’m passionate about experiential learning. Play-Doh’s a great tool to lower anxiety & generate language/ideas. Here’s a fun pre-writing use for Play-Doh. I’ll post soon about a vocabulary dance using Play-Doh too.

1. Pick an issue you find really important (abortion? climate? immigrant defense?) 2. research what organizations in your area are focused on it 3. figure out how to volunteer 4. if no orgs exist in your area, consider making a local chapter with friends