Feature image description: Illustration from ‘Always Anjali’ by Sheetal Sheth and Jessica Blank. Anjali, an Asian Indian American girl, searches through a rack of novelty license plates, finding only Eurocentric & White-appropriated names .
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Raising Luminaries is founded & run by me, Ashia Ray – an Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside my partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. I support families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together.
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