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Stay Curious, Stand Brave & Smash The Kyriarchy
Choose Your Adventure
Hey friends!
This March we’re exploring accompliceship and healthy anger with our kids.
You know, the usual March routine. Women’s history, calling in Irish Americans for St. Paddy’s – and the traditional Northeast spring dance where we pack away the kids’ winter gear, dig it out for freak blizzards, repeat 3x, and then it’s August somehow.
Here are some tools to help you navigate various March-ish topics with the kids.
No one expects you to dedicate your life 24/7 to doing ALL OF THESE in one month. But maybe pick a topic below and run with it.
I’m interested to see how this turns out! If you get into any good, juicy conversations with the kiddos, leave a comment and let me know how it went.
With you,
Ashia R.
PS: Thanks for your patience with all these messy, incomplete resources. I spent February recovering from surgery and I’m still on the mend, so things will be bumpy for a couple months.
Event Calendar
Don't try to do it all! Pick one event and build upon what you learned together next year.
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MAR
National Day of Unplugging
Helping kids navigate the attention exploitation of digital media and destigmatizing accessible tech.
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MAR
International Womens Day
Let’s talk about valuing care work and recognizing emotional labor!
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mar
National Panda Day
We love pandas. But we don't love the racist themes in panda kidlit - orientalism, racial coding, and anti-Asian stereotypes.
17
mar
St. Paddy's Day
Our annual St. Paddy’s call to stop equating indentured servitude with slavery, and other ways we can celebrate being Irish American without being hypocrites.
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mar
Spring Equinox
Kidlit that focuses on hope, rebirth, and emergence from hardship.
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mar
International Day of Forests
Let's talk about deforestation - and what we can do to turn things around.
22
mar
The Month of Ramadan Starts
With more stellar books coming out every year, we no longer have to settle for dry nonfiction about the Month of Ramadan
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RAISING LUMINARIES
Hi, I’m Ashia, founder & Head Custodian of Infodumpery for Raising Luminaries.
I create free tool kits to help overworked caregivers ignite the next generation of leaders.
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Hi, I’m Ashia, founder & Head Custodian of Infodumpery for Raising Luminaries.
I create free tool kits to help overworked caregivers ignite the next generation of leaders.
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Get free monthly email notifications when I add new resources to our Family Action Toolkits
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Sponsor or Volunteer to contribute to this toolkit and keep it free for everybody.
Looking for book-finders: Apply here to read board books with your toddler and get a free LBT membership.
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