Book
Trust kids! : stories on youth autonomy and confronting adult supremacy
Publication Information
Chico, CA : AK Press, [2022]
Physical Description
213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
Presents conversations about ways that children can be included, loved, and cared for in more generative, just, and egalitarian ways, and essays exploring the liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in relationships among children, youth, and the adults in their lives.
Contents
- Introduction / Rooting for Love / Out and Open / "A Little More Rainbow: A Conversation About One Transgender Experience" / Hold On To Your Child (Within) / Intuiting Autonomy: An interview with Yasamin Holland and Tim Holland / Anarchy Begins At Home / Already in My Bones / Solidarities of Resistance / The Power Of Unschooling: Why My Daughters Don't Go To School / Take Back Your Kids / Changing the Context / Listen To Children / A Fatigue-Wearing Judas: Acknowledging Histories and Breaking Cycles / Abolish High School / Stardreaming / He korero / A Place for Every Gift / On the Last Leg of the Journey: An Interview with Helen Hughes / Creating a Web of Intergenerational Trust: Conversations in Two Parts: In Conversation with Wakaba Mine and Joanna Motoi / Four Qs + a Poem / On Being a Trusted Adult / Solidarity Begins at Home, or, A Landing Pad Without Borders / Listen... Adults! / Childing the World / The Children of Children: Why the Adultification Thesis Is a Misguided Trap for Black Children and Families / "Blah Blah Blah" No Longer: Learning to Host, Celebrate, and Follow a New Generation / Fire of Ata: The Raging Voice Is a Song of Love / Magneto's Dreams: A New Symbol for Youth Autonomy / Back to the Beginning / Outro: youth ellipsis: an ode to echolalia