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Subversive.Thread: Guide to Coded Language in Education Vol. 1
It can be challenging for people to consider a world reimagined — one that centers justice differently. One that serves people over property. Or one that believes that change doesn’t only happen outside of oneself. But that is the elevated goal.
Rather than try to revise what is broken, why not reinvent it?
If we approach our current political and societal issues as suggested by Paolo Friere, author of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, we should remain open to the possibility of radical change that encompasses freedom and behavior that doesn’t mimic those of the oppressor.
For instance, changing the rules around policing still enables those with policing powers to still target and harm the most marginalized and vulnerable. What does a world without police look like at the microlevel? At the macrolevel?
Similarly, how is our education system built to promote inclusion and diversity? Or is it, at all?
The people who run the Instagram account Subversive.Thread outline the reasons why reform is not enough, and why we must move from allies to accomplices in order to change the world we can all thrive within. I have embedded the original post below the quoted text.
