my kids' Title 1 school in Bed-Stuy is having a holiday market fundraiser on 12/5 from 5-7:30pm. are you an artist, maker, or crafter in Brooklyn that would like to come sell your goods? we'd love to have you! the table entry fee is $50, but you keep all your earnings (or donate a portion).

3pm-10pm is entirely too many straight hours on zoom.

Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 36 (Bed-Stuy and North Crown Heights)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 35 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, Flatiron, and the Garment District)? Your city council rep is the CHAIR of the libraries subcommittee. Send a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 50 (mid-Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 49 (North Shore of Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 20 (Flushing, Mitchell-Linden, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill and Fresh Meadows)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter expressing your desire for stable library funding? @nycplan.org actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Do you live in NYC City Council district 48 (Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach)? Your city council rep opposes stable library funding. Care to send her a letter expressing your disagreement? @nycplan.org actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Feeling inspired to take action this morning? Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries! Already called? Tell us how it went: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

good job us!! bye cuomo!!

working on my book and came across this gem from my dissertation. glad this guy is canonized in academic research.

thanks to a donation from the Brooklyn Book Bodega, we gave out nearly 300 books to trick or treaters at the kids’ school Halloween event!

my new article, Beyond Antiracism: Abolitionist Teacher Learning Toward Institutional School Change, was just published in the Journal of Teacher Education! if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎃 Thinking spooky thoughts this Wednesday about what NYC would be like without our libraries? Join us in calling our City Council Members to demand they commit .5% of the budget for libraries! Not sure what to say? Not sure who your council member is? Find out here! nycplan.org/actions/call..

nycdoe school relocations are ROUGH.

putting together some nyc-based resources as we approach the SNAP funding cutoff. listed and linked below.

early voting in costume is becoming a family tradition. jellyfish for zohran.

i watched a doc about those guys that listen to police scanners & chase leads to record video & sell to news stations (e.g., freeway car accidents). i remember they said firefighters welcomed them (please record what we do!) and cops were always rude and pushing them away. very telling.

Send @nycplan.org's letter to your councilmember demanding that city council fund libraries with at least 0.5% of the city budget. This is one of the critical times to push for this as they prepare for the budget cycle! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

“hmmm, I’m not sure I’ll have the bandwidth to run that program again this year” … one week later… “so I think I’d like to run it at triple size with a larger audience and budget” why am I like this??

📣 Get in the fight for NYC’s public libraries! 🗽 Want to know what you can do? Check out this new NYC PLAN zine with lots of ideas : drive.google.com/file/d/1aWup...

“this is someone giving trump the middle finger while he holds a bag of money” #nokings

Sliwa has been relentlessly funny in this debate!

today @nycplan.org had their 2nd people’s assembly for libraries at @ethicalnyc.bsky.social and it was SO good. so grateful I get to work on something so energizing with fellow volunteers.

My sweet baby angel 8 year old: Mom, when I’m a teenager can we go to the club together? Me, who hasn’t been to “the club” in 10+ years: ….. yes…..?

just 8 days until the next @nycplan.org people’s assembly for public libraries! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

a mutual aid’s political education on fascism series. email [email protected] or visit @bedstuystrong.bsky.social on instagram for zoom link and readings.

seen in crown heights: “AI hurts kids!”

we have a rotating candle in our fam and each week someone is the “light of the week” - this week my 4 year old picked me because “you go to pilates and to a lot of meetings”

beautiful day at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social to hand out a few flyers for the upcoming People’s Assembly for NYC #libraries #bkbf2025

2.5 weeks until NYC PLAN's People's Assembly!

Hours since the last school shooting: 1

this panel looks very good! “Join us for a lively discussion on how temporary materials shape political movements.” www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-talk...

Come join NYC PLAN on October 4th for our 2nd People's Assembly @ NY Society for Ethical Culture! www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...

“ny cannot be bought” - mamdani at the fighting oligarchy tour with bernie @ brooklyn college tonight

this new comic book looks excellent. 4th in a series on the History of Africa and the Diaspora from the NYCDOE. Lukasa: History of Africa and the Diaspora #4, Kofi’s Fire. (about a 1741 revolt in NYC w/ enslaved people + working class whites) www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

closing out summer 2025 with a visit to jacob riis, the people’s beach!

it will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. - women’s international league for peace and freedom (1970s)

teaching is much bigger than conveying info, but i sometimes just love sharing what i know (especially when i know it's helpful to folks and they want/need the information!) i'm recording videos on the teacher certification process for paraprofessionals on track to becoming teachers. #edusky

what an absolute cutie patootie!!! island community garden on deer isle in maine.

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

brooklin, maine’s friend memorial public library. we come every year! our fourth and final library of summer vacation! #librarysky #booksky

vaca library #3 - stonington, maine #librarysky #booksky

library #2 of the week - provincetown public library with their children’s room BOAT #librarysky #booksky

is it even a vacation if I don’t set up an account at another library?! #librarysky