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Pass the mashed potatoes (why no one in my family wants to sit next to me at dinner & other musings)

No one wants to sit next to me at family dinner because they’re afraid I will bring up the fact that America is a myth. But it is. Let me tell you why. First, I should clarify that at our Boricua dinner, we won’t have mashed potatoes, but pernil con arroz y habichuelas. Maduros and maybe sorullos if I am lucky. But, I digress. America is a myth we must confront by abandoning holidays that honor…

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white supremacy lives in my body…and yours

“White supremacy defines our current reality. It is not merely a belief that to be white is to be better. It is a political, cultural, and economic system premised on the subjugation of people who are not white. That subjugation takes on an infinite number of forms and is enforced with varying degrees of physical violence, mental abuse and robbery. White supremacy is the voice in our collective…

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Can you keep your activism off my LinkedIn? No, ma’am, I cannot.

Can you keep your activism off my LinkedIn? No, ma’am, I cannot. I am the same person on LinkedIn as I am on Facebook, IG, Twitter, & Threads. I work in a field where we don’t separate out emotions or injustices from “workspaces” or “networking sites.” The very nature of my work is emotional in addressing injustice. I bring my full and whole self to all the spaces I hold. I wouldn’t have it any…

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My notes on 10.16.2023

We are witnessing genocide. The Palestinian people are in an untenable situation beyond their control to evacuate their homes to land where the only certainty is danger, lack of food, water and medical support, and in many cases death. If they remain in their homes in Gaza, they will soon find themselves confronted with a ground offensive in addition to the perpetual bombing already taking…

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Dear white people: Let’s not continue to be our ancestors

Dear white people: Let’s not continue to be our ancestors

Dear white family and friends, fellow white people I don’t know, white-identified people, and non-Black people in general, receive this in the spirit with which it is offered. I want to help you navigate the moment we are in. Let’s accept and acknowledge that the fires we see burning now should be emblems of our internal and collective battles to not be our ancestors. To not continue legacies of…

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Racism’s hold on my newborn child

Racism’s hold on my newborn child

At the end of last year, I gave birth to my first baby. V is smart, happy, + beautiful. The future for V is beaming with possibilities + will most definitely be filled with the love of parents, grandparents, family, + friends. In addition to all of this, racism has a hold on my newborn child. Not racism of the KKK-type, but as in the system that has been propelling her forward while…

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Where the ‘Critically Conscious Educators Rising’ Series Meets Imperialist Nostalgia

Where the ‘Critically Conscious Educators Rising’ Series Meets Imperialist Nostalgia

[The author of this article is a third year NYU Gallatin student, Alex Boone,  who interns for the NYU Metro Center’s Center for Strategic Solutions. Her individualized studies concentrate on the traumatic pathology of whiteness in educational institutions, and the effect it has on youth identity development. She writes to her audience from the perspective (and through the lens) of a…

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My commitment to #DecolonizeEd: Conference remarks by NYU CSS Director, Natalie McCabe Zwerger

My commitment to #DecolonizeEd: Conference remarks by NYU CSS Director, Natalie McCabe Zwerger

Decolonizing Education. It brought you here today. It prompted you to wake up early on a Saturday when you have other commitments and obligations. It will prompt you to engage with other educators today on why and how we must shift the way we teach, think, and act with even our youngest babies.

Decolonizing Education will require us to disorient ourselves and those within our spheres of influence…

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Conversation with parent advocates on school integration

Conversation with parent advocates on school integration

On June 30th, 2017, Natalie Zwerger, the Director of the NYU Center for Strategic Solutions, sat down with 3 parent advocates and activists to explore the complexities of school integration. Barbara Gross is a Principal Associate for Community Organizing and Engagement with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. She is a White woman and mother. Natasha Capers is Coordinator for the NYC…

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This argument exists in an invisible morass of anti-Blackness. And a new study shows exactly how wrong it is too.

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(via Dear white folks, how will we march on?)

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Dear white folks, how will we march on?

Dear white folks, how will we march on?

On Saturday, January 28th, 2017, Shaun King, writer and civil rights activist, wrote this on Facebook, “Today has been, without a doubt, one of the most despicably inhumane days in my lifetime as an American citizen. Grievously inhumane. This day will go down in history as a deeply unethical, unnecessary, unconstitutional day of pain and chaos caused solely by Donald Trump. Anyone who has not…