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Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers & Allies Taking Action for Black Lives
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
— Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography.
From Georgia to Louisville to Central Park to Minneapolis, to the disproportionately Black & POC lives lost to COVID-19, to all of the places and events that didn’t make the news — our country is in a deep & necessary reckoning around hundreds of years of systemic racism and violence.
Continue reading here: Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers & Allies Taking Action for Black Lives
For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act of resistance
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
Read on: For parents of color, schooling at home can be an act of resistance
Why All Parents Should Talk With Their Kids About Social Identity
A new survey from Sesame Workshop suggests when it comes to talking with kids about things such as race, class and gender, many parents have work to do: Why All Parents Should Talk With Their Kids About Social Identity
An excerpt: “Kotler Clarke says, all grown-ups need to be proactive about explaining the differences kids see and making clear: Different isn’t bad. If children don’t get help from parents ‘and have to try to make meaning of different social identities [on their own], they may come up with all sorts of weird and strange reasons that people are somewhat different.'”
Three Tips for Talking to Your Kids about Sex | Greater Good
Times have changed, and so has the sex talk: Three Tips for Talking to Your Kids about Sex | Greater Good
Strategies – Raising Race Conscious Children
A resource for talking about race with young children (scroll down for the link)…
How to Awaken Joy in Kids | Greater Good
These research-based practices can help kids (and adults) foster authentic happiness: How to Awaken Joy in Kids | Greater Good
Sometimes Surviving Is Enough: 8 Reminders To Not Be So Hard On Ourselves
Surviving is enough, and you should not feel bad if that is all you can manage sometimes.
Thanks to Lindsay R. for sharing this resource: Sometimes Surviving Is Enough: 8 Reminders To Not Be So Hard On Ourselves
Don’t Say Nothing | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
“We may be uncomfortable talking about race, but we can no longer afford to be silent. We have chosen a profession, which—like parenting—requires that our comforts come second to those of children.”
Don’t Say Nothing | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
