one of the biggest missteps with ‘social justice’ over the last decade, was obsessing over terminology, and everyone using the ~correct~ language to avoid being outcasted—which just led to people adopting the terminology to fit-in and it didn’t translate to transforming behavior

Misogyny. It's being used to radicalize boys into fascism.

When someone talks about “protecting children,” pay attention to what they mean by that

There are no malls No arcades No community centers It's hot af outside You police the parks Defunded libraries YMCA too expensive The fuck they supposed to do? theguardian.com/games/article/…

The trouble with Restorative Practices in schools is that there is too much focus on using them to respond to incidents and not enough on building community to prevent incidents. You can't restore what you didn't build.

The Republican game plan is always to cut funding to services that help people and redirect it to services that kill/imprison people. Then when the services that help people underperform they argue it's because they are controlled by the state so that they can justify privatizing

About 1 in 12 youth held for a criminal or delinquent offense is locked in an adult jail or prison, and most of the others are held in juvenile facilities that look and operate a lot like prisons and jails. The carceral system is not a place for children.

The LA Teachers' Union is going on strike. Fuck. Yes. 1/

Florida out to make kids less safe online

Obviously when I say the children are all of our responsibility, that includes the children of Palestine.

“If you build palaces for children, you tear down prison walls.” -socialist doctor Julius Tandler

They are doing lockdown drills to avoid agents of the state.

Folks in the nonprofit industrial complex stay arguing about who’s doing the most revolutionary work (or the real work) — and it’s always funny to me. I’m doing my best to push my own nonprofit to its radical edge, but I also know the limits of what’s possible within these