I'm a graduate of Hillsdale College, and they are insidious in promoting their private school curricula, particularly their 1776 Project. They wrote that Project to protest and tell a story against the 1619 Project. The two stories are duking it out, and while I'm confident the 1619 will last in the way true things often do, it is ugly in the meantime. Even on the cusp of Thanksgiving, the myth-making around the origins of this holiday are legion, and it's almost impossible for me to find children's books for household that don't perpetuate a harmful story.
The world needs good stories, diverse stories, and all stories. Smash the white supremacist, Christian nationalist patriarchy.
Brought me to tears, and made me want to get up and fight even harder. Thank you.
This. All of this.
I'm a graduate of Hillsdale College, and they are insidious in promoting their private school curricula, particularly their 1776 Project. They wrote that Project to protest and tell a story against the 1619 Project. The two stories are duking it out, and while I'm confident the 1619 will last in the way true things often do, it is ugly in the meantime. Even on the cusp of Thanksgiving, the myth-making around the origins of this holiday are legion, and it's almost impossible for me to find children's books for household that don't perpetuate a harmful story.
The world needs good stories, diverse stories, and all stories. Smash the white supremacist, Christian nationalist patriarchy.
Hello Lani, love this, and it chimes in so well with a Glennon Doyle podcast I listened to recently featuring Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey. It's about how we need to rest to imagine a different future, and how our culture conspires to keep us hustling so we don't have the space to dream. I think you'll love it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-more-grind-how-to-finally-rest-with-tricia-hersey/id1564530722?i=1000582486920
Such power in your words. Thank you 🙏