Lessons in liberation An abolitionist toolkit for educators
Book - 2021
"Born from sustained organizing, and rooted in Black and women of color feminisms, disability justice, and other movements, abolition calls for an end to our reliance on imprisonment, policing and surveillance, and to imagine a safer future for our communities. Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators offers entry points to build critical and intentional bridges between educational practice and the growing movement for abolition. Designed for educators, parents, and young people, this toolkit shines a light on innovative abolitionist projects, particularly in pre-K-12 learning contexts. Sections are dedicated to entry points into Prison Industrial Complex abolition and education; the application of the lessons and p...rinciples of abolition; and stories about growing abolition outside of school settings. Topics addressed throughout include student organizing, immigrant justice in the face of ICE, approaches to sex education, arts-based curriculum, and building abolitionist skills and thinking in lesson plans. The result of patient and urgent work, and more than five years in the making, Lessons in Liberation invites educators into the work of abolition. Contributors include Black Organizing Project, Chicago Women's Health Center, Mariame Kaba and Project NIA, Bettina L. Love, the MILPA Collective, and artists from the Justseeds Collective, among others."--Page 4 of cover
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Chico, CA :
AK Press
[2021]
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- "Cover illustration by Melanie Cervantes"--Page 4 of cover
- Physical Description
- 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9781849354363
- Where We Start Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resistance Editorial Collective
- Part 1. Openings and Groundings
- Building Our Analysis
- Fierce Urgency of Now: Building Movements to End the Prison Industrial Complex in our Schools
- Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus
- Reflections from a Dean of Transformative Discipline: What Abolitionist Education Means to Me
- Dismantling ICE Means Defunding the Police
- We Tryna Get Free On Our Own Terms: A Conversation
- Abolition: One Genealogy
- School Abolition Already in Progress: Understanding "Dysfunctional" Schools as Liberated by Student Power
- Building our Knowledge
- Picturing the PIC: Concentric Circle Exercise Critical Resistance
- Artifacts from the End of the Prison Industrial Complex
- How to Share Space: Creating Community in Classrooms and Beyond
- Seven Easy Steps: Ideas & Questions for Everyday Abolitionist Organizing Critical Resistance
- Building Our Power
- Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist Steps in Policing Critical Resistance
- Black Organizing Project
- Black Organizing Project Sanctuary Pledge Black Organizing Project
- Demilitarizing Our Schools
- Part 2. Everyday in Every Way
- Building Our Analysis
- Imagining "Classroom Management" as an Abolitionist Project
- Young People Building Movements: Negotiating Adultism in Schools and Beyond
- A Science Teacher Takes on Feminism and Abolition in Her Classroom...What Could Go Wrong?
- Abolitionist Teaching
- Reparations Can Be Won-and Must Be Taught: Lessons from the Chicago Public Schools' Reparations Won Curriculum
- Nine Point Platform National TRUTH Trans Youth Council
- Nourishing Our Imaginations: Abolitionist Art
- Building our Knowledge
- Building Classroom Communities: A Pedagogical Reflection and Syllabus Excerpt
- Why Spiritual Revival Matters: Spirit Murdering that Shapes Elementary Schooling
- Woke Wonderings
- Educators Against ICE California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
- Classroom as Quilombo: Literacy, Ancestral Memory, and Everyday Resistance
- Thick Glass Walls
- 10 Ways Sex Education Can and Should Be Abolitionist Chicago Women's Health Center
- Building Our Power
- ICE Out of Schools: Teacher and Community Action
- Coins, Cops, and Communities: A Toolkit American Friends Service Committee and Debbie Southorn
- Freedom Charter 2030 for the Decriminalization & Decarceration of Cis & Transgender Girls and Women and Gender Non-conforming (GNC) People & (Re)Unification with our Children and our Families Young Women's Freedom Center
- Plight of Girl
- Beginning With the Body: Strategies on Building and Defining Safety in Unsafe Schools
- Children of the MILPA: Culture and Community Unlocking Education MILPA Collective
- Part 3. Growing Our Work
- Building Our Analysis Abolition Education in High School and Alternative Spaces: A Dialogue
- Toward a Greenhouse Model: An Interview about Healing-Centered Engagement
- If We Changed the World
- Fighting Back Against Policing in the Arab and Muslim Community Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Letter to Brandon: Heal, Grow, and Change the World
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Doesn't Sing: Creating a Healing Space for Black Girls to Reclaim Their Bodies
- Building our Knowledge
- We're Here and Talking: Project What!
- Abolition, Not Reform: Kinder, Gentler Youth Prisons Are Still Prisons
- Breaking the Interlocking Chains of Carcerality
- Abolitionist Exercises: 12 Youth-Friendly Activities to Strengthen Abolitionist Skills and Thinking in Your Lessons, Workshops and Curricula Critical Resistance
- Building Our Power
- Thinking Beyond "Counselors, Not Cops": Imagining & Decarcerating Care in Schools
- The Struggle to Ensure that Restorative Justice Is Transformative
- Cultivating a Culture for Transformative Youth Organizing
- Arts-Based Abolitionist Education: Free Money Example and Sample Curriculum
- Postscript: Celebrate the Fire, Celebrate Seed
- Contributors and Permissions