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…
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…
The Power Of Unschooling: Why My Daughters Don’t Go To School
How does a 10-year-old Atlanta-based black girl with Jamaican parents, shoulder-length locs, and zero interest in school become deeply…
How Learning Happens in Unschooling
My daughters watched the video of Korryn Gaines and read some articles that offered speculation on what happened.
A Podcast for People of Color in the Self-Directed Education Movement
UPDATE: Fare of the Free Child is Live
3 Ways You’ve Been Taught You Can’t Be Trusted — And How Not to Pass That Onto Children
Originally posted on EverydayFeminism.com.
Helping Our Children Practice Confident Autonomy — Alternative Learning Advocates
Lainie Liberti and Miro Siegel are fascinating people. In 2009, the single mother and son duo decided together to take the year of yes…
Pulling Learning from Under the Rubble of Education
Education and learning are not the same.
Why Erykah Badu’s Respectability Politics Aren’t the Problem
Have you been watching the storm of backlash that Queen of Woke, Erykah Badu, is getting from her tweets about girls’ skirts and men’s…
How To Design Your Life From Childhood. Probably. Maybe.
Since appearing on The Steve Harvey Show to discuss parenting, I’ve gotten a barrage of questions about what our children do all day, since…
