Let's tackle these obstacles together
Let's tackle these obstacles together
Ignition Call Support Sessions give you focused support to talk through parenting and advocacy challenges that have got you stuck.
Newer LBT members, please ping me if you hit a ‘members-only’ wall. Some of our older content, such as the stuff in our old Facebook group or deactivated Patreon page, is no longer maintained, but I can still give you access to view the archives.
With a shared love of reading and curiosity about social justice, this is our space to talk about the non-kids-books that don’t fit in our Family Action Toolkits.
Finding clever ways to resist and care for each other when our rights are under attack
How to keep showing up for your kids and community - even as the world falls apart. Co-hosted by Raising Luminaries & Come Back To Care
A simple guide to destroying everything and everyone you care about.
Updating our kidlit analysis reviews so they are now #OwnVoices book reviews by real kids.
Investigate the implicit messages in your bookshelf together with this critical reading workbook for kids
Teaming up with Nat Vikitsreth of Come Back To Care to collect our marbles as we parent through impending doom.
Weekly/monthly digests with new features & good stuff for Luminary Braintrust members
Collecting our own baggage before we pass it on to our kids
Vent, commiserate, add your ideas & vote for which challenges we could tackle next.
Art & exploration activities for rainy days home with the kids
Storybooks, discussion guides & reflection activities for kyriarchy-smashing kids.
Workshop refresher on getting started and keeping going. Hosted annually in the spring.
I tried to do a podcast and ended up just running out of breath and giggling a lot.
Workshop to discuss disability justice with young children.
Central compendium of tools, templates, and resources for parent activists
Calls to action single parents and accomplices who want to build a better world for single parent families
Reflection prompts & discussion questions to examine supremacy culture within our communities and ourselves.
Try hard things, fail spectacularly, get back up. Let's celebrate what we learned! Now evolved into the Friday Failure Padlet.
The best Books For Littles book recommendations, sorted by age and topic
Gathering twice monthly in spring & autumn to tackle your current parenting challenges
Open discussion on how we're normalizing kind and courageous action through our own behavior and interactions with our kids.
Open discussion sharing what we're working on and how we're progressing. Now evolved into the Monthly Quick Actions & Collab Lab
A year of homeschool curricula orchestrated by the inhabitants of Bumblebee Hollow
Education activists modeling progressive social change in early childhood education throughout the US.
Discussion series hosted on the now-archived LBT Facebook group, which has since evolved into the Failure Party, Little Wins, Collab Lab, and Winter Incubator
Music, books & talking points to start talking with kids about racial injustice in partnership with Wee The People, MassArt Center ofr Community Art & Raising Luminaries
Open discussions on the impossible load we're managing to prioritize our time and attention on deep work. Now evolved into the Summer Luminator.
Discussions sharing the books we're reading and what we're learning
Reflection prompt series on building relationships for collaborative care
Article series on strategies & kids books to smash wealth inequality in a single generation.
Formerly the 'Benevolent Incendiary Society,' the Ignition Notes Newsletter is how I update the public on our latest resources and goings-on
Events calendar with curated kids books & conversation starters to channel despair into kid-friendly action. Now evolved into our Family Action Toolkits
Series of articles on authors creating coruageous stories that fill an enormous gap in representation
Curated book collections with short articles on why we need to have hard conversations with kids
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