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03/19/2026
It was never “just school.” It has always been about struggle, survival, and self-actualization. Don’t ever let them convince you that we don’t value education. Shout out to all the Black teachers, whether you teach in a classroom, in a home, or on a football field. Thank you for your dedication to the molding of our young people 🖤✊🏾
02/27/2026
This article has been harassing my feed for a couple of weeks now so just sharing my thoughts. ELA/Literacy teachers, weigh in.
this article was honestly the saddest use of a 30 day free trial.
What happened directly after Associate Professor Allyson Friedman’s racist comments tells us everything we need to know about complicity and supposed allies’ role in upholding the systems that continue to harm Black people.
Ally, Accomplice, and Co-Conspirator visual credited to Britt Hawthorne
REPOST• If I asked you to picture a Colombian person, you’d probably think Karol G, J Balvin, or Shakira.
But if you go to a city like Cartagena you’d realize many Colombians also look like me.
Colombia has one of the largest Afro-descended populations outside of Africa, but media and complexion privilege don’t always reflect that reality.
And right outside the city is San Basilio de Palenque, the first legally free Black town in the Americas, founded by formerly enslaved Africans.
Have you heard of Palenque?
02/14/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️✊🏾
Racism (and all forms of oppression) ultimately harms us all. Paulo Freire reminds us that the oppressor, too, is dehumanized in the pursuit to dehumanize the oppressed, as it distorts the vocation of being fully human.
02/06/2026
Black Joy, Black Resilience, Black Ingenuity, Black Love. And no, one does not need to be perfect in order to be humanized, so if pointing out his shortcomings is the urge you get from this post, you should really check in with yourself.
February dates for the Teaching Resistance workshop will be added soon. Share with anyone who may be interested.
02/02/2026
I came across this N**i propaganda poster from 1943 calling out American hypocrisy. The closer you look, the more you are reminded that the U.S. never had any business “liberating” other countries. Essentially, America has always been who she is today. This could be an interesting discussion piece to share with students, given US involvement in Venezuela, as well as the narrative undercurrent that “this is not the America we know”
“Cultural Terrorism” (Kultur-Terror) is a composite monster of nationalities, ideologies, or ethnicities seen as unacceptable in the utopian N**i fatherland. The amalgamation of negative associations with America include jazz music (the record), crude capitalism (the “Jewish” businessman with a bag of money), naked women, and slavery. Together they form an artificial homunculus whose sole purpose is to destroy European culture, pictured through the American ‘bomb-leg’ destroying European landmarks (Lübeck’s castle is pictured).
Damsleth’s work reflects N**i attitudes towards both Jim Crow and American racial violence. Ironically, American race relations, accentuated in the monster’s K*K hood and the nooses, were castigated a symptom of an uncontrolled and uncultured society. While N**is did not disapprove of Americans’ “racial consciousness” per se, they condemned this freestyle violence as chaotic. And they critiqued what they saw as American hypocrisy, especially when contrasted next to symbols of the American justice system like the gravel and handcuffs.”
-Niamh Neville, American Cultural Terrorism
01/27/2026
I can only imagine what it’s like teaching on these subjects right now. I’m curious how your school year is going? What conversations are you having with your students? How have you had to adjust your curriculum?