Britt Hawthorne

It's preemptive to read this while pregnant, but I figure I should be pivoting from pregnancy books to parenting ones by this point! The subtitle fits: this really is a practical guide with exercises for both parenting partners and children, as well as ways to frame conversations (with helpful notes about age, or if some activities are more focused for white families versus people of the global majority (on that note, I really like the term "people of the global majority" because it's more accurate, tbh)).

While this contains contemporary examples from the 2020s (references to recent police brutality cases and the anti-Chinese xenophobia from the COVID-19 pandemic), overall I found suggestions to be helpful in cultivating a curious, exploratory mindset for asking ourselves and our children why and how things are, and what can be done to make equitable space for ourselves and our communities. Unlearning societal frameworks is hard work, and while I'd like some people in my periphery to read this, it'll probably fall on me to do the intellectual labor of going through these exercises the next time we have a situation (because that's a when, not an if). The book is broader than antiracism by including antibias work; Britt Hawthorne and collaborators explicitly include gender identity and disability as communities to consider when talking to your child about how our world frames access and prioritizes voices.

Strongly recommended for caregivers looking to instill a sense of care into their dependents as well as to learn how to be a co-conspirator for vulnerable communities.… (plus d'informations)