Fran Liberatore
@franliberatore.bsky.social
Writer on parenting, youth autonomy, education, carework & consent. Researching ECE & children’s rights.
Substack👇
https://alifeunschooled.substack.com
Substack👇
https://alifeunschooled.substack.com
Who here has heard of low-demand parenting and what are your thoughts? I have my own thoughts but I’d love to hear other people’s!
July 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Who here has heard of low-demand parenting and what are your thoughts? I have my own thoughts but I’d love to hear other people’s!
I homeschool and I'm worried about "school choice"
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
I homeschool and I'm worried about "school choice"
Because I think it misses an opportunity to actually support children.
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February 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I homeschool and I'm worried about "school choice"
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
I write a lot about parenting and educating in a consent-based way and I’m publishing a book, free to read, over on Substack. Go take a look if you feel like it open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
EXPANDING CONSENT: PART I. Chapter One: My story
I'm sharing my book on Substack, free to read.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I write a lot about parenting and educating in a consent-based way and I’m publishing a book, free to read, over on Substack. Go take a look if you feel like it open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
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If you are a home educating family, are you *also* explicitly teaching your children the importance of supporting public education? If not, it’s time to start.
February 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If you are a home educating family, are you *also* explicitly teaching your children the importance of supporting public education? If not, it’s time to start.
For anyone with kids in public school - there’s something you can do.
Here is something you can do right now
January 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
For anyone with kids in public school - there’s something you can do.
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Can't blame you if you shut off the RFK hearing yesterday. His storm of lies was exhausting.
I watched it and the one throughline shows why Republicans love him so: He wants to take your health care away. Not just vaccines — all of it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...
I watched it and the one throughline shows why Republicans love him so: He wants to take your health care away. Not just vaccines — all of it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...
"AI nurses" as "good as any doctor": RFK hearing confirms he wants to take away people's health care
Kennedy's prescription for American health: replace real medical care with a lecture about eating better
www.salon.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Can't blame you if you shut off the RFK hearing yesterday. His storm of lies was exhausting.
I watched it and the one throughline shows why Republicans love him so: He wants to take your health care away. Not just vaccines — all of it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...
I watched it and the one throughline shows why Republicans love him so: He wants to take your health care away. Not just vaccines — all of it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...
Whenever people push back on me saying children should be able to make decisions, or at the very least participate in decisions, about their daily lives, I remind them that not so long ago women couldn’t vote, do most jobs, and were told we weren’t capable of rational thought and decision-making.
January 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Whenever people push back on me saying children should be able to make decisions, or at the very least participate in decisions, about their daily lives, I remind them that not so long ago women couldn’t vote, do most jobs, and were told we weren’t capable of rational thought and decision-making.
It’s a bit like if you were doing research on women’s rights and most of the research was people speaking to men, surveying men, interviewing men. I know people will say it’s not the same - but it’s similar. There was a time when people didn’t think women could think or speak for themselves.
January 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It’s a bit like if you were doing research on women’s rights and most of the research was people speaking to men, surveying men, interviewing men. I know people will say it’s not the same - but it’s similar. There was a time when people didn’t think women could think or speak for themselves.
I’ve been working on a proposal for my research into the way children understand and enact their rights in education settings, and it’s shocking how little research there is that actually involves children - speaks to them, gets their opinions and thoughts. (Especially younger children)
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I’ve been working on a proposal for my research into the way children understand and enact their rights in education settings, and it’s shocking how little research there is that actually involves children - speaks to them, gets their opinions and thoughts. (Especially younger children)
E1: "Tradwives aren't even trad" with Caroline J. Sumlin
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
E1: "Tradwives aren't even trad" with Caroline J. Sumlin
S2 of my re-vamped pod begins today! I chat to Caroline J. Sumlin about tradwives, capitalism, whiteness and what's actually "traditional."
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January 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
E1: "Tradwives aren't even trad" with Caroline J. Sumlin
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
Who on here is advocating for queer youth and kids? I’d love to connect.
January 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Who on here is advocating for queer youth and kids? I’d love to connect.
Wrote a piece about the ways school harms (some) children, and why not all home education is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
When school is harmful
And home education is the only option (Part 1).
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January 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Wrote a piece about the ways school harms (some) children, and why not all home education is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/alifeuns...
100%!!!
I would even go for "an anarchist thing" : consent, freedom, rule autonomy, wide open world, unending thirst for learning, commons.
January 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
100%!!!
Ok let me try again: home education, if done from a children’s rights perspective, is a left-wing act.
January 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Ok let me try again: home education, if done from a children’s rights perspective, is a left-wing act.
Unschooling from a children’s rights & liberatory perspective is a left-wing thing, I challenge you to disagree 😬
January 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Unschooling from a children’s rights & liberatory perspective is a left-wing thing, I challenge you to disagree 😬
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As a progressive home educator, I am anti-school choice. Yes, we exist: leftie homeschoolers who are through the conservative agenda to strip public schools of funding AND equally believe children’s rights should be at the centre of public education.
President-elect Trump said he would name Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee education commissioner, as deputy education secretary.
Trump Chooses a School Choice Supporter to Help Lead Education Department
nyti.ms
January 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As a progressive home educator, I am anti-school choice. Yes, we exist: leftie homeschoolers who are through the conservative agenda to strip public schools of funding AND equally believe children’s rights should be at the centre of public education.
As a progressive home educator, I am anti-school choice. Yes, we exist: leftie homeschoolers who are through the conservative agenda to strip public schools of funding AND equally believe children’s rights should be at the centre of public education.
President-elect Trump said he would name Penny Schwinn, a former Tennessee education commissioner, as deputy education secretary.
Trump Chooses a School Choice Supporter to Help Lead Education Department
nyti.ms
January 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As a progressive home educator, I am anti-school choice. Yes, we exist: leftie homeschoolers who are through the conservative agenda to strip public schools of funding AND equally believe children’s rights should be at the centre of public education.
Another day, another piece scapegoating teens. The way we treat and talk about teenagers and young people is awful.
Ever heard of the “door kicking challenge” where teens kick on people’s doors for “social media clout”? No?
That’s because it doesn’t exist. It is yet another fake TikTok challenge entirely invented by local news media outlets and police departments across the country to scare parents.
That’s because it doesn’t exist. It is yet another fake TikTok challenge entirely invented by local news media outlets and police departments across the country to scare parents.
Local news has invented another fake TikTok challenge
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January 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Another day, another piece scapegoating teens. The way we treat and talk about teenagers and young people is awful.
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In case you missed it, read the full investigation 👇
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or…
www.propublica.org
January 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In case you missed it, read the full investigation 👇
I listened to this, highly recommend! Great reporting @propublica.org
WATCH: In 2023, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social received an envelope with no return address.
Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
John Williams, a wilderness survival trainer, spent two years undercover moving up through the ranks of two militias, the Oath Keepers and American Patriots ...
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January 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I listened to this, highly recommend! Great reporting @propublica.org
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It is a sad day for Columbia and us all when a respected scholar is pushed to "retire" because of attacks from within and outside the university. What does academic freedom mean under these conditions? Genuinely asking here, bc these kinds of attacks are not going to end with Katherine Franke
January 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It is a sad day for Columbia and us all when a respected scholar is pushed to "retire" because of attacks from within and outside the university. What does academic freedom mean under these conditions? Genuinely asking here, bc these kinds of attacks are not going to end with Katherine Franke
I wish the media would stop a) writing about whether vaccines cause autism. This was debunked decades ago, why are we still talking about it? And b) talking about the “rise in autism” when in fact it is a rise in diagnoses (which the piece does say, conveniently towards the end). (NYT piece below)
January 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wish the media would stop a) writing about whether vaccines cause autism. This was debunked decades ago, why are we still talking about it? And b) talking about the “rise in autism” when in fact it is a rise in diagnoses (which the piece does say, conveniently towards the end). (NYT piece below)
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I'm so excited to see @franliberatore.bsky.social has joined the growing homeschool/education group here on Bkuesky. I follow her on Substack and her posts all make me think. I'm currently pondering home ed as a 'leftie' thing. What do you think? #homeeducation #homeschool
January 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I'm so excited to see @franliberatore.bsky.social has joined the growing homeschool/education group here on Bkuesky. I follow her on Substack and her posts all make me think. I'm currently pondering home ed as a 'leftie' thing. What do you think? #homeeducation #homeschool
This is so interesting - apparently we draw the line for satire at billionaires.
"I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now."
WaPo staffer resigns after paper spikes cartoon that jabbed billionaires cozying to Trump
A political cartoonist for The Washington Post is quitting her job — and posted an explanation on Substack accusing the paper of censoring her mockery of billionaires, including the paper's owner, Ama...
www.rawstory.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is so interesting - apparently we draw the line for satire at billionaires.