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September Resource Roundup
Autumn Kids Books, Discussion Questions & Action Guides for Kyriarchy-Smashing Families
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Parenting is Praxis: September Edition
No one expects you to do it all – so pick one, or knit them together. Just keep pushing a tiny bit beyond your comfort zone and crack that noggin’ open just wide enough to let a little light shine in.
Significant Dates & Events in September
- Labor Day: Labor rights and advocating for sustainable working conditions
- Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur:Apologizing, making amends, and forgiveness
- The joy of Ganesh Chaturthi
- How to support asthmatics through peak week
- Chillaxing together through the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
- Learning the truth about Residential Schools on Orange Shirt Day
Monthly Explorations for September
- Dismantling the wealth gap
- Latinx & Hispanic heritage month
- Child-Led Schooling
- Let’s explore healthy masculinity
You are doing a good job!
We home school and I often build lessons around the books you and topics you suggest. The resource found-ups are my favorite thing. They are so helpful.
It’s wonderful to be able to trust your book recommendations.
Megan B., LUMINARY BRAIN TRUST MEMBER
Stay Curious, Stand Brave & Smash The Kyriarchy
I know everyone wants you to PREPARE AND DO AND CREATE AND SHOW UP asap – but I just wanted to remind you that slowing down when the season changes it is a part of decolonizing and anti-supremacy work.
I don’t ever expect you to do *all the things* in these roundups. They’re not more stuff for you to handle, they’re the tools you can use to burn away the bullshit and climb to a better world, if you want it. The stuff I make for you is here for you for when you’re unsure of where to start, for when you need support.
I appreciate you. I want you to feel safe and happy and whole. So you better be kind and patient with yourself! I demand it!
With you,
– Ashia
You give me hope.
Knowing we’re in this together, each making tiny steps toward courageous, radical kindness – we’re not alone!
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I knew there was a reason I loved THE SWORD IN THE STONE when I was a Little!
[in between there was a lot of Arthurian exploration – the latest in 2020 with some retells of Malory].
And I didn’t encounter the story by T H White until 2004.
The only reason so many of us don’t see Potter as an “entitled little shit” is because we meet Dudley in the first chapter – who on the surface is even more Entitled.
[and as Lynley Stace on SLAP HAPPY LARRY says – Readers are Ducklings and they tend to attach to the first character they meet in a story.
I hope the Luminary Brains Trust and the Luminaries are more critical than that].
[and I didn’t get any inkling about this view of Potter until about chapter 13 and the Troll].
[This becomes really big in ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and HALF-BLOOD PRINCE].
Then you think of Ronald Weasley and his elder brothers and little sister Ginny.
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Afro-Latine people – had “met” them in South America and of course in Africa.
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I had really enjoyed the Chang’e-focused film on Netflix.