leftistparenting @leftparenting

Mom, B.Ed, writer, queer, leftist. Raise amazing kids w/o glorifying authoritarianism, capitalism, cops. Teach about patriarchy, ableism, racism to destroy them Joined March 2020

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Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall

6 years ago

It’s never been more clear that cops aren’t the only cops in schools. Teachers are expected to be cops too, and some of them even enjoy it

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

@TigerSwalowtail You did great. Thank you for taking the time to connect face to face. It was just the beginning of the convo ♥️

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Raising Abolitionists @abolitionforall

6 years ago

Testing is not about learning. It’s about coercion and policing. If people are learning things they actually want to know, there’s no need to test them

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dash in Alberta. Full Public Inquiry NOW @phunphunphun

6 years ago

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

In honour of Labor Day, teach your children to negotiate. Tell them your plan for dinner tonight - something gross. Then tell them that if they think they can change your mind, they could work together and give it a try. “Let’s say I’m the boss but do the workers get a say?”

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

Step five: Agreement, Closure and implementation of the strategy. Encourage them to put it in writing and explain why they need to read what they sign Remind them that hierarchal power structures breed inequality and congratulate them on taking back some power over dinner 🍽♥️🖤

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

Step three: Clarify terms and options. You justify why the liver & onions need to be eaten, they justify why something else needs to be on the table, too. Step four: Bargaining & problem solving. What’s the demand? What’s the counter-offer? Encourage democratic decision making.

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

What picture books have you read with your kids about unionizing and labour rights?

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leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

It was never about screens.

leftistparenting @leftparenting

6 years ago

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Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia

6 years ago

folks new to abolition: we need abolition of *all* carceral regimes (not just cops & prisons), or else we simply reconfigure carcerality. And think about abolition as internationalist, or else we outsource violence. "Abolition must be green & red & international" - Ruth Gilmore

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Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas @AbolitionF_ists

6 years ago

The Anarkata Statement frames “freedom schools to protect our kids from the school to prison pipeline” as a facet of how we see community defense. Thinking about that concept as kids literally get suspended or worse for not meeting virtual schooling requirements in a pandemic