Caribbean queer mama and community organizer zara raven shares wisdom and analysis on how to resist the right.
What a lot of parents and families need is housing. A lot of parents and families need to have their material needs met, and so a lot of people — a lot of working moms in particular — are mobilizing toward those ends and in those movements.the movement. It can be the work.
. Revolution starts with how we practice our values in our everyday lives, in our everyday relationships, and we can choose as parents and caregivers to practice values like respect and accountability.“It’s All in the Family,” about how family is an important site of resistance against hierarchy because it’s a space where violence tohierarchy is normalized. It’s on that basis that the nation-state is conceptualized, as a national family maintained by borders.
We did pod-mapping to figure out who’s going to support us when we cause or experience harm. [See a worksheet for exploring pod-mapping, written by Mia Mingus for the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective,.] We did scene-making last month to express our feelings and needs as we work to transform conflicts. That one I’ve been doing at home with my little one for a while, and it’s just been a really lovely way to work through conflicts.
One of the kids shared, and I have permission to share this one. Her scene was like, “My mom asked me to clean my room, and then she went to make dinner. I was supposed to be cleaning my room, but I started doodling. Then she came in and she was like, ‘You’re not cleaning your room!’” The kid wrote something like, “Next time, I’m going to communicate if I’m feeling overwhelmed and I need a doodling break.” Kids are thinking about how to engage in conflict better than adults in some situations.
It’s about listening to and believing kids. Also, for me, supporting youth autonomy is so intertwined with disability justice, and gender justice and racial justice.
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