#childism — Public Fediverse posts

Super excited to be invited to give this talk at the University of Lethbridge on March 27. I've been thinking a lot about temporality and childhood in this new era of fascism. #uleth #ualberta #academicchatter #ChildhoodStudies #childism https://www.ulethbridge.ca/notice/events/childhood-time-monsters

'love and respect demand that every human child be treated not as “the property of parenting adults to do with as they wish” but as their own person with their own rights. “When we love children,” hooks reminds us, “we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights—that we respect and uphold their rights.” '

#Parenting #ParentsRights #ChildrensRights #Adultism #Childism

What are some movies or shows where children are treated lovingly and thoughtfully, their autonomy is respected, and they thrive as a result? Like properly anti-childist media that would make John Holt himself sit up and take notice?

#childism #JohnHolt #adultsupremacy #TrustKids

I'm delighted to say that I'll be off to Cyprus in August for the European Conference on Educational Research to present as part of Network 25: Research on Children's Rights in Education. I'll be presenting my paper, "Mobilizations of Transgender Students' Rights Discourses as a Wedge Issue in International Far-Right Authoritarian Movements."

#ECER2024 #ECER #network25eera #EERA #UAlberta #childism #ChildrensRights #LGBTQ2S #LGBTQrights

Topics include: #unschooling #childism #neurodivergence #decolonizing #climate #DisabilityJustice #TransRights #immigrationjustice #HAES #DonorConceivedPeople and #freepalestine

In person I'm a #recoveringacademic and #UnitarianUniversalist practicing #FeministTheory outside the corporate university.

For fun I bake, cook #vegetarian one-pot meals with whatever vegetable is in season, and sing in #choir.

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