This newsletter is written by me, Fran Liberatore, and challenges our cultural norms and assumptions about children's autonomy, consent, education & care work. I wade through the BS and bring you discourse & critique from a perspective of children’s rights & liberation.
I talk about dismantling adultism and respecting children. About centering consent at home and everywhere. About mothering, feminism, anti-capitalism, and generally pushing back on a narrative of “might is right.”
I zoom out and look at the ways that we live, parent and show up in community are political and revolutionary, and how we cannot do it alone.
I’m an early childhood educator, a grad student in Education, an unschooler, a mother of two - and a writer ;)
What matters to me.
I’d love this newsletter to be a resource and support for anyone who is engaging in the act of partnering with young people, and also questioning the inheritance of coercion and domination we are all born shouldering.
In other words, we can care for and love and live with our children, and all children, in radically different ways.
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