EP 19: Social Justice Parenting For The Long Haul

 

Episode Summary:

Let’s explore these questions together: how are we going to keep doing this liberation work together as a community of decolonized parents? What are the smallest daily practices we can do to play the long game of liberation? In this episode, you and I are going to frame these questions like we’re going on a road trip to liberation together. Like on any summer road trip, we have lots to unpack and lots to pack.

Full episode transcript here.

What You’ll Learn From this Episode:

  • The small, deep, intentional inner work/healing that sustain long-term social change. 

  • Grace Lee Bogg’s & adrienne maree brown’s teachings on inner transformation.

  • Why unpacking the old conditionings is essential, especially when we have the best intention.

  • How to not repeat the harm and oppression we’re trying to abolish when we pick the easy and convenient solutions.

  • One item to unpack: socially constructed labels

  • Exploring who you are beyond the roles/scripts/labels of race, class, gender, ability, etc. Because we are not born this way.

  • Ask who’s raising my child? My values? In-laws’? Capitalism’s?

  • One item to pack: mothering not martyring.

  • Practicing the kind of politicized radical self-love that you need to heal your inner child and internalized oppression wounds and meet your child where they’re at in solidarity (instead of as a savior).

  • Another item to pack: befriending uncertainty and discomfort.

  • Breaking the cycle of react and revert by pausing and discerning which tool is adaptive because the go-to reactions are likely to be outdated (and oppressive).