On behalf of The Critical Social Educator’s publishing collective, I’m excited to share the journal’s newest issue on “Teaching Truth” guest edited by Drs. Ryan Oto, Natasha Murray Everett, and Sara Armstrong Demoiny!

www.tcsejournal.com/issues/vol-3...

🔥 Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social for exposing at a national level what we are fighting against in Iowa. What is happening here CANNOT become the national model. www.instagram.com/reel/DFyFVrA...

The fact that refusing to take down an “everyone is welcome” sign is an act of courageous resistance but it is. Payout out to West Ada, Idaho 6th grade teacher Sarah Inama and the students who rallied to support her. And to the other teachers @nrdz.bsky.social and I … m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...

This administration doesn’t like “malicious compliance” … just maliciousness.

Pre-order the 2nd edition of Social Studies for A Better World then DM me your receipt (with CC info redacted!) and Noreen and I will enter you in a book bundle giveaway! www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

Join us for the 5th Annual Central Iowa Trans Lives Festival on March 29, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility with art, food, live performances, and more. Free admission and parking. Hosted by First Unitarian Church of Des Moines. More info at ucdsm.org.

Another gem of a bill this session proposes to criminalize people who administer mRNA vaccines. That sounds like it couldn't possibly be true, but it is. SF360 passed out of the Health & Human Services subcommittee on Monday. www.iowapublicradio.org/state-govern...

This project is to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections. 
https://bit.ly/DEIAclose

Iowa just fast-tracked the removal of gender identity from civil rights. It’s the first state in the nation to do so and I know these legislators aren’t done. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2uBodUa/

"By centering stories often held in the margins...norms that were once unseen are now made visible. For some, this process is painful—like flipping on the lights in a pitch-dark room. Some may cower, shield themselves from the light, close their eyes tightly, ...

Historical amnesia fuels authoritarianism. People not knowing the history of equity work in schools makes it easier to attack. We also miss out inspiration for our own activism. The 1968 Blowouts in LA and the birth of ethnic studies matters now more than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrs...

The Iowa Civil Rights Removal Act (HSB242 legiscan.com/IA/bill/HSB2...) is a breathtakingly cruel piece of proposed legislation that removes transgender Iowans’ civil rights protections, adds restroom and birth certificate restrictions, and redefines sex to erase trans people. Contact reps NOW.

@nrdz.bsky.social and I are so proud of this "timely second edition" of Social Studies for A Better World. Pre-order your copy today and tag us in a picture of your receipt to be entered into a drawing for one of these powerful book bundles: www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

It's refreshing to witness the refusal to comply—especially when existing law backs it up! Institutions do not have to cower and scurry to ask how high when Trump says "jump." We can say NO.

If you are a Des Moines resident, please sign these FIVE petitions to put proposals for resolutions about protecting public education and immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ youth in schools on the school board agendas.
• #1: DMPS Public Funds Security Resolution forms.gle/Lt368R1mpQ4D... 1/4