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This is a pretty accurate depiction of how I teach

This is a pretty accurate depiction of how I teach my kids, and a major reason I decided to homeschool since day one. Too many kids are raised without learning about these issues, without learning to look critically, without learning how misogyny and racism have impacted how and what we learn. Via @socialstudies4socialjustice
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“Any subject can be taught using a social justice framework. When we teach, we either reinforce the oppressive status quo, or we work with students to dismantle it. These are just a few ideas, please share ways that you have incorporated social justice into your subject area!”
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#socialjustice #socialjusticeeducation #decolonizeeducation #decolonizeyourcurriculum #socialstudiesteachers #mathteachers #scienceteachers #artteachers #worldlanguages #criticalpedagogy #educationforliberation #antiracisteducation #homeschooling

Via @mamava_vt ・・・ Did you know that 1 in 3

Via @mamava_vt
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Did you know that 1 in 3 jobs held by women have been deemed essential during the coronavirus pandemic? (The New York Times).

Many of these women are moms. So a special shout-out to the mamas nourishing their little ones while on the frontlines🙌.
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📷: @aleksah and Cory Simon-Nobes
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#Mamava #newmom #normalizebreastfeeding #pumpingmom #breastpump #nursing #pumping #motherhoodinspired #momlife #millennialmom #strongasamother #uniteinmotherhood #workingmom #busymom #postpartum #motherhoodrising #workingmomlife #nursing #strongmom #WBW2020 #essentialworkers #worldbreastfeedingweek #frontlineworkers #nationalbreastfeedingmonth #Repost with @make_repost

Via @littlefeministbookclub This is truly terrifyi

Via @littlefeministbookclub This is truly terrifying! “At first we thought delays were only due to COVID, but turns out it's a lot more sinister than just that.⁠ ⁠
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In June, the President indirectly appointed a new Postmaster General: Louis DeJoy. ⁠It seems like DeJoy's only qualifications are that he's rich and has donated millions of dollars to Trump + the GOP.⁠
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Since his appointment he has:⁠
📬 Ordered postal workers to leave mail behind if it delays them from their routes. (Traditionally, postal workers are trained not to leave letters behind and to make multiple trips to get mail out on time.)⁠
📬 Banned overtime (so the local post office's hands are tied in dealing with delays)⁠
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This is an attack on our elections (mail-in ballots), on our health (prescription medicine), on rural communities (who only USPS delivers to, and on small businesses (like us, whose lifeline is USPS).⁠” #Repost @littlefeministbookclub with @make_repost

Kayaking every day with (and without!) my kids all

Kayaking every day with (and without!) my kids all summer has nourished my body, mind, and spirit. We saw painted turtles, a great blue heron, a beaver dam, lots of hawks and a bald eagle, sparrows playing catch with a feather, and an incredible view of the comet from out on the lake at sunset. ⁣
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We got caught in a thunder, lightening, and hail storm (even though I checked the weather before we left) which came on suddenly and included big waves filling our boats with water, an intense beeline for the nearest beach, and a post-storm discussion about how things can change quickly but even scary things can be ok in the end, as we paddled home with our arms feeling like noodles. (Wearing life jackets, of course.) ⁣
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My 6-year-old took to kayaking naturally and impressed us with his ability to break, turn, and keep up with us. My 12-year-old spent all day on his boat, happily fishing for hours. ⁣
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Access to green space is a human right ✨⁣
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#greenspace #waterlover #kayak #family #attachmentparenting #nature #natureschool #homeschooling #unschooling #outdoors #outdooradventure #healthyliving

“The World Health Organization Endorses Breastfe

“The World Health Organization Endorses Breastfeeding Selfies! The objection to breastfeeding photos is fairly unsurprising in our culture, where ignorance about breastfeeding abounds. Breastfeeding is promoted (sometimes) in hospitals but generally scorned in public. There have been numerous accounts of women being harassed and degraded for breastfeeding in public. When people don’t get it, they just really don’t get it. Why would a woman bare her “private parts” in public? Why would a woman commit such an intimate act in front of everyone?? It’s the same thing as someone urinating or having sex in public, right???⁣
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Wrong.⁣
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Wrong wrong wrong.⁣
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Breastfeeding is a lost art in our culture, and that is reflected in our dangerously low breastfeeding rates. UNICEF and other health organizations predict that millions of lives could be saved every year if more mothers breastfed, and yet the rates in the United States and Great Britain are some of the lowest rates in the world.⁣
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We share breastfeeding selfies to normalize the act of breastfeeding in public. When generations of people see breastfeeding, it will become less of a scandal and more of a completely innocuous act.⁣
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And we are not alone in our support — a spokesperson from the World Health Organization spoke out at a recent United Nations briefing to express encouragement of mothers posting “brelfies.”⁣
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WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said, “It’s absolutely to be encouraged.”⁣
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#breastfeeding #worldhealthorganization #worldbreastfeedingweek #naturalparenting #attachmentparenting

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🤱🏿 Today kicks off World Breastfeeding Week #WBW2020 ⠀
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🌍 This year the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action is focusing on breastfeeding for a healthier planet. Breastmilk is a natural, renewable food that is environmentally safe and green because it is produced and delivered to the consumer without pollution, packaging, or waste. ⠀
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Essential reading! Intergenerational trauma and ep

Essential reading! Intergenerational trauma and epigenetics explain so much and help us take a compassionate approach to trauma and its impacts. #trauma #intergenerationaltrauma #epigenetics @soyouwanttotalkabout @yourrightscamp

This happens all the time on my FB parenting page.

This happens all the time on my FB parenting page. “What does race have to do with parenting?!?” the white moms want to know.⁣
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What are these parents really saying when they insist that awareness of systemic racism has no place on a parenting page? ⁣
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“White supremacy” isn’t just the KKK. It isn’t only overt. It includes the centering of white feelings and white experiences. It includes white parents thinking racism doesn’t affect them or their children therefore it has no place on a parenting page. ⁣
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It includes white moms demanding that I stop posting about racism on my parenting page and “get back to the topic,” even though the topic has always been changing the world with our parenting choices. ⁣
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White parents: if you’re not raising your kids to be actively anti-racist, you’re doing it wrong.⁣
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#antiracism #antiracistaction #whiteprivilege #whitesupremacy #georgefloyd #breonnataylor #blacklivesmatter

Amplifying this message 📣 I get super excited w

Amplifying this message 📣 I get super excited whenever I see people work together and protest and stand up against injustice. I am excited about the wall of moms. I also observe how white is the default and when a group of white moms shows up, they get attention and praise that Black moms who have been in this struggle for years do not receive. The wall of white moms is good and important; putting our bodies on the line and using our privilege is what we should be doing. It’s also essential to look critically at why this receives more attention and validation than Black mothers pleading for the end of police brutality. #policebrutality #socialjustice #blacklivesmatter #protest #portland #wallofmoms #georgefloyd

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