Hoping this short piece continues to resonate with world-building work so many are doing. Also, this is the last open access week for Ladson-Billings, Alim, Nasir & me "The Past, Present & Future of CSPs-- download those free PDFs if useful (linked in the blog). hep.gse.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

A Black family now owns the site of America’s largest slave revolt. Twin sisters, whose ancestors were enslaved in the area, purchased the plantation to ensure the history will never be buried again. capitalbnews.org/largest-slav...

To navigate these terrible times, we need Audre’s Lorde’s audacity: Protect the public sphere. Refuse to be silenced.

Weapons embargo now.

Reminder that Octavia Butler and her mother are buried in Altadena in a cemetery now surrounded by blocks of burned down buildings. #listentotheprophets

"Maybe everyone who moves through unprecedented times feels like their moment is somehow the direst, but there does seem to be something especially existential, especially world-ending about this past decade." —@djangoparis.bsky.social in his Voices in Education blog post https://bit.ly/4ff6u7G

There is nothing Amazon sells that cannot be purchased elsewhere. I made my last purchase on 12/1. An order of gifts they promptly lost and I replaced elsewhere. Folks should start buying direct from companies that have a website. Prices are the same and the original company keeps more profit.

My goal for the month is to get eight new paid subscribers for my newsletter. I will never add paywalls to the essays, interviews, and reports I publish, but paid support makes this work possible. If you value this work, I would be extremely grateful for your support.

Friends! Grateful to join Gloria Ladson-Billings, H. Samy Alim & Na’ilah Nasir in our new article, “The Past, Present & Future of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies.” Open Access in the Harvard Ed Review. Hope it can be useful in our collective work! meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

I got to sit down with the amazing @mskellymhayes.bsky.social from @truthout.org to talk about tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court and the importance of Indigenous storytelling. Check it out! truthout.org/articles/reb...

Nikki Giovanni will forever be a legend. This headline doesn't do her the justice she deserves. www.wdbj7.com/2024/12/10/w...

These new open access Spencer Foundation papers on culturally sustaining and relevant education offer such a wealth of understanding from decades of research. Grateful for the folks who put in the work reviewing across communities, subject areas, methods. Check them! www.spencer.org/news/new-whi...

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

We Grow the World Together is a vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition. For every copy we sell on our website this month, we'll send a free copy through our Books Not Bars program to a reader who is currently incarcerated.

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

When the founding treaty was drafted & signed, it was written out in English & in the Māori language. The English version has been interpreted as the Māori ceding the land & sovereignty to the UK monarch. The Māori language merely says they join the UK & retain the land & sovereignty.

✨Welcome, Newskies, to Bsky! ✨ This is going to be a thread of introductory fino. The first thing we're going to do is reply to this post with a "pushpin" icon in the emoji stuff below. Do that now, and I'll explain why in my next post! (1/?)

Greetings! If you’re looking for beautiful enactments of teaching & learning toward collective futures, our new series “An Educational Otherwise” is up on YouTube & Soundcloud. Join us! linktr.ee/educationalo...

If you need to engage with your emotions meaningfully right now, I also recommend listening to this.

I would honestly be in alarm-raising mode about what we're going to be up against, but I think more immediately, people need to get right with where they're at psychologically. Bc if we don't do that, people aren't going to be ready for what the coming months/years will demand of us. From last week: