What can collective liberation mean or look like?
Overview
Leading up to the Week of Action, educators develop and pose a prompt to students about what it means to be seen, honored, and safe in their schools and communities. We receive responses of all kinds, from poetry to photography, and everything in between and beyond. Past examples of questions include: “What does education as the practice of freedom look like?” or “What makes you feel free to dream, safe to thrive in schools and communities?” Student Creative Challenges are posted in January. If you work with students, please use this as an opportunity for a class lesson and submit their designs for the video showcase.
This Year
This year’s theme is Collective Value. Our principle Collective Value states, “We are guided by the fact that all Black lives, regardless of sex assigned at birth, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, economic status, ability, disability, education, location, age, immigration status, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, matter. None of us are free until we are all free.”
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all systems of oppression.” - Combahee River Collective
This year the Student Creative Challenge prompt is: What can collective liberation mean or look like?
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all systems of oppression.” - Combahee River Collective
This year the Student Creative Challenge prompt is: What can collective liberation mean or look like?
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Link: bit.ly/BLMAS24Challenge
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