changing everything might sound daunting, but it also means there are many places to start, infinite opportunities to collaborate, and endless imaginative interventions and experiments to create.
— Mariame Kaba, abolitionist & educator
May we create endless imaginative interventions in joy and justice
Liberation Library
A starting place for anyone looking to work in the space of education. These texts have supported me, grounded me, expanded me in this work.
Books as Abolitionist text
Cosmic Possibilities: An intergalactic youth guide to Abolition, AYO! NYC
Creating community in classroom
https://e.issuu.com/issuu-reader3-embed-files/latest/twittercard.html?u=projectnia&d=how_to_share_space-final_draft3&p=1Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality, Ben Kirshner
"Distraction: Girls, School and Sexuality" Erin Mikulec
"Emergent Strategy" adrienne maree brown
"Educating Feminists: Life Histories and Pedagogy" Sue Middleton
"Feminism is for Everyone" bell hooks
"Feminist teaching in theory and practice" Becky Ropers-Huilman
"Girls, Single-Sex Schools, and Postfeminist Fantasies" Stephanie McCall
"Hood Feminism" Mikki Kendall
"In A Classroom of Their Own" Keisha Lindsay
Lessons in Liberation, An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators, AK Press
“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Paulo Friere
"Pushout" Monique W. Morris
"Radical Technologies" Adam Greenfield
"Rebel Girls" graphic series
"Research is Ceremony" by Shawn Wilson
"Schools that Work" Whole Schools Consortium
Social justice books project https://socialjusticebooks.org/about/
"Teaching to Transgress" bell hooks
“Teaching Community” bell hooks
"Teacher of Weird Abundance" Anne Sexton
"The Feminist Classroom" Frances A Maher
“The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World” Ronald Abadian Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Martin Linsky
"We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching" Bettina Love