Akilah S. Richards

22
Apr
Good Morning America Got Unschooling All Wrong (Here’s How)

Good Morning America Got Unschooling All Wrong (Here’s How)

Earlier this month, the ABC Television produced show, Good Morning America, published a blog post about unschooling titled “I tried…
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21
Nov
Do Unschoolers Use Curricula?

Do Unschoolers Use Curricula?

Our oldest unschooling child — Marley (age 13) — is ready for a curriculum. I know this because I am a magical, woke-ass, exceptional…
3 min read
03
Jul
How Minimalism and Unschooling Intersect

How Minimalism and Unschooling Intersect

Traveling turned out to be a big part of our deschooling process as a family. When public education showed us, for the umpteenth time, that…
4 min read
30
May
Thoughts on Raising Free People: Tantrums

Thoughts on Raising Free People: Tantrums

We rarely extend mood courtesies to children. For example, if a child throws a tantrum, we view that as them being “bad” or misbehaving…
2 min read
09
Apr
Why Racial Justice and Raising Free People Can’t Include Coddling White Guilt

Why Racial Justice and Raising Free People Can’t Include Coddling White Guilt

“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being…
3 min read
06
Apr
4 Ways White People Can Support Black People in the Unschooling World Without Being Intrusive

4 Ways White People Can Support Black People in the Unschooling World Without Being Intrusive

This question came from one of my podcast listeners who supports the show through my Patreon page, and asked this question:
3 min read
18
Mar
Privilege, Oppression, and Thoughts on Raising Free People

Privilege, Oppression, and Thoughts on Raising Free People

I am learning so much about myself as a result of our collective decision (Kris, Marley, Sage, and me) to shed the not-it shit, embrace…
4 min read
23
Dec
From Outsourcing Oppression to Unschooling for Liberation

From Outsourcing Oppression to Unschooling for Liberation

About six years ago, Kris and I stopped sending our daughters to elementary school. Our big idea was to make ourselves fully available to…
5 min read
29
Sep
Navigating Unschooling and Blackness In the American Education System

Navigating Unschooling and Blackness In the American Education System

My doctors consider my daughters medical anomalies; I prefer the word miracles. My health had been compromised by a painful disorder…
5 min read
22
Sep
Leaving Plantations (mis)Named School

Leaving Plantations (mis)Named School

There have been more murders of Black people: Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma and (though at the time of writing this, reports say one…
2 min read