Oh boy I knew this was Chicago without even clicking on anything ❤️

Solidarity With Children is an essay written by Madeline Lane-McKinley and it’s available at @haymarketbooks.org a lovely lefty bookstore in my hometown of Chicago ❤️

From Rousseau: a powerful critique of educational institutions, “fit only to make men double-faced, seeming always to attribute everything to others, but never attributing anything save to themselves.”
-Solidarity with Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

In each case, quite crucially, we see the child function as a surrogate to the slave—as the Other who must bend to “reason” through domination, a fantasy that continues to propagate through Western colonialization.
-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

Another pernicious philosophy of education from this period conceives of the child’s natural state as one of “evil manners.” …Hobbes contended that children are without any “rule of good” except for “the correction they receive from their Parents, and Masters.”
-Solidarity W Children #booksky

We shouldn’t need to hear about the worst-case scenarios…to know that all forcible pregnancies and forcible childbirths are the products of sexual violence.
-Solidarity With Children #booksky

If children are imagined as having any agency at all…they are delegated with the impossible task of saving the planet. In this effort, youth are encouraged to focus on legislative demands—doing work for votes, in a system in which children have no right to vote.
-solidarity w children #booksky

a world that…renders their future more apocalyptic, and in which they are taught…that this is just inevitable. We make this hell normal, knowing that children will most likely live out something far worse, the terror of which we can only begin to recognize.
-solidarity w children #booksky

Doing so involves first reckoning with our own sense of possibility, and meeting the challenge posed by youth climate activists: that we stop “pretending that empty words will make the emergency go away,” and bring to an end the arrogance that enables this belief.
-Solidarity With Children #booksky

What is lost when we limit our political horizons to what is supposedly “realistic”? And who gets to decide what can and can’t be possible?

-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

Re: “the youth will save us”

Whether as a talisman for hope or as a mere scapegoat for generational conflicts, the role of youth has, time and again, been overlooked—or worse, overwritten. We owe it to each other to show up together, in as many ways as possible.
-Solidarity With Children #booksky

How do we imagine a political movement that’s not “for the children” but actually w/ children & for our future? How can we make this imaginable not just in the abstract but in our everyday lives, in the ways we treat each other, make decisions together, and listen?

-Solidarity W/ Children #booksky

we were all brought here without our consent. As adults and children, as humans, we have this in common. That’s what it means to be born and to survive.

-Solidarity With Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #booksky

Thought that was the same guy at first glance and they were showing us how he “changed his look” a la Ted Bundy

Dang I guess I should call her and be nice for once

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“In Michigan, we all prioritize our wildlife, our forests, our lakes, our freshwater. That’s sort of Michigan’s pride,” said Willow Lund, 17, from Kalkaska. “What are our other land options other than pulling down a forest?”
The kids are all right 🥲

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