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Do I want to read this? On one hand, it seems to be the deep-dive into what Dawn of Everything piqued but never fully explained — namely, how did these free, care-based nations that developed outside the influence of the rest of the world system actually WORK — but on the other hand, I keep wondering whether we could ever trust white folks who do not have a clear and explicit commitment to a politics of decolonization, land-back, self-determination, re-indigenization, etc to tell these stories without carrying with them the ideology of settlerism and white supremacy??

Omg pg 5 connecting Europe, Hawai’i, Carlisle, and the Freedman’s Bureau:

“Armstrong framed the mission of Hampton around providing industrial training for those who had been formerly enslaved. His stated goal for the Hampton school was to educate "the head, the heart, and the hand," and to provide "cultural uplift" through moral and manual training. He drew this language from the European pedagogue Pestalozzi, who described educating the head, hand, and heart in his framing of industrial education for former serfs in Europe.”

Omg this looks too good NOT to exceed the Sept book budget for!!

The Education shelf at Room of One’s Own is on fire this morning

For such a small book, that is so deeply aligned with my interests and curiosities, this book is taking FOREVER to get through. Maybe that’s a feature?

Ryan says it “does a lot of responding to Gutmann” so that has me intrigued

I re-read this as I found myself struggling to connect to this moment in time, and I’m super glad I did.

I have had to drastically curb my book-buying budget… which means that all the margin-annotating I would ordinarily do for a book like this is off limits on the library copy. So I’m gonna write probably a lot on here.

I met Shawn Ginwright at the life-changing Free Minds Free People conference (rip) in Baltimore in 2017, and I’ve been following his work closely since then. He’s m usually allergic to anything that’s remotely self-help-y but after reading Chödrön’s book I’m more open to it.

I’ve been adjacent to (more or less, depending) “movement work,” activism, organizing, social Justice, etc for a long time, and I’ve always felt inadequate, unworthy, and fraudulent in it. I’m hoping this book will give me a chance to unpack that and find a path that I can work with.

I’ve decided I’m actually not gonna say any more about this book on here. I just wanna put it out there — if you’re going through some shit, I think it might really help you.

I saw the Kerry James Marshall / Bruce Mau talk live and it blew my mind. This book is worth it just to revisit that dialogue, which I do before every school year starts.