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Cheri Mann

@itscherij.bsky.social

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Teacher of ML students, lover of ed tech, Fund for Teachers Fellow 2023, avid reader, hiker, geocacher, knitter

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josé olivarez

@joseolivarez.bsky.social

I’m hella proud of this poem. I believe what I wrote and what @heymrsbond.com writes here : within community, there is power

Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Apr 24

@joseolivarez.bsky.social’s poem “poem where no one is deported” is an affirmation that within community, there is power.

poem where no one is deported
By José Olivarez
now i like to imagine la migra running into the sock factory where my mom & her friends worked. it was all women
who worked there. women who braided each other's hair during breaks. women who wore rosaries, & never
had a hair out of place. women who were ready
for cameras or for God, who ended all their sentences
with si dios quiere. as in: the day before
the immigration raid when the rumor of a raid was passed around like bread & the women made plans, si dios quiere.
so when the immigration officers arrived they found boxes of socks & all the women absent.
safe at home. those officers thought
no one was working. they were wrong. the women would say it was god working.
& it was god, but the god
my mom taught us to fear was vengeful. he might have wet his thumb
& wiped la migra out of this world like a smudge
on a mirror. this god was the god that woke me up
at 7am every day for school to let me know
there was food in the fridge for me & my brothers.
i never asked my mom where the food came from,
but she told me anyway: gracias a dios. gracias a dios del chisme, who heard all la migra's plans
& whispered them into the right ears to keep our families safe.

April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Cheri Mann

@itscherij.bsky.social

To my Jewish friends, my immigrant and refugee friends, my Hispanic and Indian and Syrian friends, my LGBT friends, my Black friends, I am here for you. I respect your right to be you and reside in this country. I wish this was a safer space for you.

January 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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Kyle McKillop

@kylemckillop.bsky.social

This amazing spoken word piece, "Go Back to Your Country", was written and performed by grade 9s in Matheson's grade 9 Arts Integrated Module. It is soooooo good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAi...