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JANUARY

Family Action Toolkit

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Stay Curious, Stand Brave & Smash The Kyriarchy

Choose Your Adventure

Regardless of how talented, resilient, and resourceful you are, sometimes the chaos grows beyond your control. 

Luckily, January is the time to brush up on tenacity and resilience when we stumble and fail. 

Even if you’ve got grit up the wazoo, sometimes you’re just running on empty. Trains run late, your project implodes, your kid comes home barfing, and everything needs your urgent attention all at once.

You’re not alone in this. Don’t beat yourself up if hard work alone isn’t enough to claw your way through injustice, glass ceilings, and stacked odds.

I know you’ll get back up and keep fighting when the time is right.

​​I like you and want you to be okay. Take a moment to feel loved.

Right now. DO IT. YOU ARE ADORED.

With you,
Ashia R.

January Explorations

January Calendar

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Gregorian New Year

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George Washington Carver

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

3rd Monday of January

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Coldest Days of the Year

Northern hemisphere coldest days of the year on average

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Holocaust Remembrance

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Fred Korematsu

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Lunar New Year

Dates shift each year between January & February according to Lunarsolar calendar

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Month of Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr

Dates shift about 10 days earlier each year according to the lunar Hijri calendar. The Month of Ramadan starts in January in 2028-2030. Eid al-Fitr occurs at the end of Ramadan observances this month in the years 2031-2033.

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Post Author: Ashia (they/them)

Ashia Ray is the founder of Raising Luminaries.

I’m 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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