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.

Here is the link to that 2014 piece, also now open access. It's been a (long!!!) decade but still some things ringing real true for the work of today, and tomorrow. Peace!
meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

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.

“We also share how education research and practice can join contemporary global movements for justice and liberation to offer necessary paths forward out of multiple intersecting crises in and far beyond education.”

From the intro: “We invite readers into this discussion of what we have learned over the past decade alongside communities about teaching and learning that centers and sustains young people, families, and the land.”

Huge thanks to the Harvard Ed Review Editorial Board for their thoughtful and generous work with us over the past year. Special shoutout to Woohee Kim and Jane Choi for guiding our article through the review and publication process.