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Picture Books About Social Justice
My new system of keeping a special container of books right by my bed is working! It has helped me fit in more books about gender identity and expression with my children. I decided it was time to add additional picture books about social justice.
Here’s what’s in our rotation from the library right now:
Social Justice Picture Books
- ¡Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A. A bilingual fictional story set against the backdrop of the successful janitors’ strike in Los Angeles in 2000. It tells about Carlitos, whose mother is a janitor. Every night, he sleeps while his mother cleans in one of the skyscrapers in
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Educational Inequity: The Problem Is Real
A conservative commentator, Ben Shapiro, gave a speech at Berkeley back in 2017. In it, he addressed many subjects including educational inequity, white privilege, and poverty. I’ll be going to a community discussion about his perspective. Therefore I wanted to spend a little time preparing my thoughts.
To summarize his words, he said:
… Read MoreOkay. Here are the three rules that you need to fulfill as a person before you can start complaining about your life failures being the result of somebody else’s actions…You need to finish high school. Number two: you need to get married before you have babies. Number three: You need to get a job.
That’s it. You
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Sandra Bland Day: Let’s Continue to Do the Work
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Sandra Bland Day in Austin. The amazing Community Advocacy and Healing Project organized the event.
Sandra Bland’s death hit me hard back in 2015. And whenever I think something is hard for me as a white person, I pause. I try to put myself in the shoes of People of Color to the extent that I can. At the Sandra Bland Day event, I got to listen to a Black woman talk about what Sandra’s story was like for her. She explained that most of the police brutality she had witnessed prior to that point had been on Black men. Those … Read More