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Raising Luminaries Post-It Mural Collective Action activity.pdf

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A summer project spreading the word about why public libraries are so essential - and how you can get involved!

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Evaluate your neighborhood's transit and accessibility and compare them to features compared your own experience, via Growing Sustainable Together.

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On the Move: Virtually Explore Your Neighborhood - Shannon Brescher Shea

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Use digital tools to explore the different ways to get around your neighborhood. Find your neighborhood Go to Google Maps. It should focus on your neighborhood right away, but if it doesn’t, click on the “focus” button in the bottom right hand side. It’s circled on the example below. Check out the car traffic Use […]

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From our Transportation Justice toolkit

Print & fold this mini zine to guide an adventure around your neighborhood, exploring the challenges and possibilities for getting around.

Folding instructions

Print PDF

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Draw your favorite way to get around in bright, bold colors inspired by transportation artist Geraldo Gonzalez.

From our Transportation Justice toolkit

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Go on an adventure to your school, park, or library using a different form of transportation than you're used to via Growing Sustainable Together.

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On the Move: Take a Car-Free Trip - Shannon Brescher Shea

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Work with a trusted adult to plan and carry out a trip without using a car. Pick Your destination: Pick a place in your community that you go to often. It can be school, a park, or a library! Find out the best way to get there: Will you get there by walking, biking, or […]

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This coloring book featuring many types of transportation can be printed in single sheets or as a full book.

Created for our Transportation Justice toolkit

Download & print the coloring book

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Student School Workbook Title Coloring Page

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When a Bully is President: Truth & Creativity Resources - Reflection Press. Preview of two pages from the book featuring colorful line art

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Building Strength When A Bully Is President

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Building Strength When A Bully Is President

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Companion activities for the children's book guide 'When A Bully Is President' by Reflection Press

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When a Bully is President: Truth & Creativity Resources - Reflection Press

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We are stronger together. Resources for When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times View the Reader’s Guide for the book and more!

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An Intergalactic Youth Guide to Abolition 

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What does it look like when our abolitionist visions for the world are realized? What did it take to get us there? This publication was created over a series of several weeks after the summer 2020 Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute (AYO, NYC!)

Video training & bonus resources here: https://abolitionist.tools/Cosmic-Possibilities

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Cosmic Possibilities: An Intergalactic Youth Guide to Abolition

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Cosmic Possibilities: An Intergalactic Youth Guide to Abolition is a creative and reflective dreamspace made by and for young people to imagine liberatory new worlds. What does it look like when our abolitionist visions for the world are realized? What did it take to get us there?

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Bold Portraits

Our Bold Portraits project includes project ideas inspired by Kehinde Wiley paintings. Recommendations for when and how to use these ideas are included in the PDF. This is a great project to celebrate Black Futures, to welcome spring, or to encourage self-appreciation.

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Kehinde Wiley Inspired Project for Students

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Craft a Color Changing Chameleon | Crafts for Kids | PBS KIDS for Parents

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Turn a couple of paper plates and some paint into a great visualization of how chameleons change colors to match their settings.

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Bookish Peeps

Woo-hoo it's Beautiful Pie's A Slice on Us blog where we'll post complimentary project and campaigns ideas that you can download and use for free. If you want a more in-depth campaign, we're here to help!

These printable coloring sheets are the perfect addition to a book club, or to keep around and free handouts at your bookstore. You can download and print them for free (and we'd love to know if you use them but that's not necessary). These sheets are not intended for children but if you plan to use them for kids, we suggest the Buy Books and Be Kind and Me + Books = Happiness.

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Book Shop and Book Club Coloring Sheets to Print for Free

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These printable coloring sheets are the perfect addition to a book club, or to keep around and free handouts at your bookstore. You can download and print them for free.

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preview of a daily routines visual calendar PDF printable with up to 6 daily routines and 3 pages of cut-out activities for kids

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Reflection activity from our Transitions Toolkit.

I had to make this from scratch when I was an exhausted young mom, using photos of Rescue Bots putting on socks and washing their wheels.

But now all you have to do is print, cut, and tape this baby to your wall!

Use the time you saved to nap or snack.

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vWIgtAdrvoGo94XhPmXDzuKHdbRSFTm8/view?usp=sharing

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Download, print, laminate (if you want), and use them for daily or weekly check-ins with your favorite young people.

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Download, print, laminate (if you want), and use them for daily or weekly check-ins with your favorite young people.

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Bystander intervention & de-escalation pocket zine

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Bystander intervention & de-escalation pocket zine

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Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

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Abolitionist Bystander Intervention & De-escalation — Interrupting Criminalization | Research In Action

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A pocket zine on bystander intervention and de-escalation, as an abolitionist practice for dealing with harm or potential harm in your community without involving the police.

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Including multiple activities from the creators of Revolutionary Humans - inventor for a day, bold portraits, and more!

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Human perception is not the one and only way to experience the world!

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Home Improvement Tips & Advice from HomeAdvisor

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You love your pets. Hopefully, you also love your home. What's interesting is that your furry family members see your home very differently than you do. It's not a matter of taste - it's how their eyes are built.

It's not true that dogs see in black and white, but they do see fewer colors than most people. That's because they have only two types of cone cells in their eyes, compared to the three humans have (sensing red, green, and blue light). Color is not the only difference. Some animals have stronger or weaker vision, better suited to different qualities of light. Some pets use a different number of eyes or lenses to construct a visual map that suits their priorities.

All this means that pets navigate your home in a different way to you. Your dog leans on their sense of smell and their memory of where things are to find their way around. Avoid regularly moving furniture around as it may disorientate them. But, if you've planned a new layout, it can help to move one piece of furniture at a time.

Your cat is a very visual creature, but - like the dog - sees fewer colors. Cats see very little red but lots of green and blue. It might help if toys, cushions, and other things the cat seeks are in these colder shades.

Planning to redecorate your home and want to consider your goldfish's point of view? Or just curious why your cat/parrot/tarantula keeps crashing into the standing lamp? HomeAdvisor has trawled through the latest scientific research to create a new set of visualizations showing how your pets might see your surroundings at home.

Dog

Your dog will take just about any style you make at home and turn it into a pastel-colored coastal living kind of affair. Dogs see muted combinations of the colors filtered by their two-cone eyes: blue and yellow.

They may only have 20-40% of the visual acuity (ability to make out shapes and details) of their owners. But on the up-side, they have a wide, 240-degree field of vision - which is why they never miss you sneaking into the kitchen.

Cat

Cats must see things differently to live the way they do. But existential outlook aside, a cat's point-of-view is characterized by its excellent night vision. While humans have a high number of cones in our retinas, cats have lots of rods - a different type of photoreceptor cell, sensitive to low light.

Your cat has a wider field of view than you (200 degrees versus 180) but not quite as wide as that of a dog. Its color vision is somewhere between that of you and your dog, too, since it is a dichromat (has two color cones) that sees blues and yellows with a bit of green as a bonus.

Goldfish

If your goldfish turns its nose up at your new suite, it's because she can see more colors than you. Her ability to see ultraviolet light helps her see in water, but may also reveal where your dog has tried to mark its territory on the sofa.

Appropriately enough, a goldfish also enjoys a fisheye lens effect. Its round corneas gather light from an almost 360-degree canvas, and are almost the same density as water, compensating for the warping effects of light in water.

Snake

If your only pet is a snake, you needn't worry about the visual design of your interiors. Most snakes have very poor vision in daylight, although a good serving of rods means their nighttime vision isn't too shabby.

The bonus for some snake species is infrared vision. Your snake may merge heat-detection data from its pit organs (thin membranes between the eyes and nostrils) with visual data to create an image that looks something like thermal imaging.

Tarantula

Most spiders have eight rather feeble eyes and rely more on their hairy legs to feel their way around.

However, researchers have recently noted the color-sensing structures of opsins (a type of protein) might make them sensitive to color, and might be used to find mates. So if you notice your tarantula getting frisky with a bright blue ashtray, you know that science is on to something.

Parrot

Birds rely heavily on a highly effective visual system, and your parrot can see UV, blue, green, and red color ranges. In fact, the 'violet' color in this picture has been used to double for ultraviolet, which is actually colorless and invisible to humans.

Polly can also adjust her focus super-quickly, and has near 300-degree coverage but monocular vision, meaning one eye focuses on one thing while the other wanders. She can also contract her pupils at will, for example if doesn't dig your new lampshade.

Chameleon

Who cares more about your choice of living room palette than your pet chameleon? Not only does he absorb, transform, and re-emit color ( changing to regulate temperature and communicate), his eyes are almost all 'cone' and no 'rod,' so he sees lots of color (including the ultraviolet spectrum) but little contrast.

Your chameleon's eyes operate independently on little turrets so that he can watch for predators across a total field of vision of 342 degrees. If you need to creep up on him to grab your copy of Wallpaper back, you'll find he has a blind spot of 18 degrees just behind his head.
Everyone's a Critic
Like any housemate, living with a pet only becomes more complex the better you get to know them. You can always decorate your home for the human eye, but it's good to know what colors stand out to your pup or kitten. Maybe they'll use that scratching post, toy or dog bed more if the color pops? Which pet-proof feature are you planning to add?
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Miller, A. (2016). Eyes give 360° vision : Chameleon. asknature.org

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Orosz, S. (2013). Why Birds' Eyes Are So Different From Ours. lafeber.com

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Dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, and arachnids see things differently than we do. Since they spend so much time in our homes, we thought we'd show you what your pets see when they look at a living room--or at least the nearest thing our human eyes can see.

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Do Citizen Science - Make Friends Wtih Bumblebees!

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Tracking animal sightings through seasons and climate change gives policy-makers the information they need to protect animal habitats. Becoming a citizen scientist can be as simple as noticing the bumblebees in your neighborhood.

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We need your help! Because these animals are widely distributed the best way to keep track of them is with an army of volunteers across the country armed with cameras. With any luck, you might help us to find remnant populations of rare species before they go extinct.

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coloring page wild animals aren't pets! world animal protection kids' activity book

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World Animal Protection's activity book Wild Animals Aren't Pets! explains why wild animals belong in the wild-and should never be purchased at a pet store.

Children will learn about wild animals and the wildlife trade through:

Beautifully illustrated coloring pages

Fun games including a crossword puzzle, maze, and word search

Hands-on ideas for how kids can help wild animals in their community

Inspired and want to do more?

If you're an educator or work with kids, we'd love for you to use this resource! Reach out toprograms@worldanimalprotection.usto learn about getting printed copies or incorporating the activity book into your work.

We're urging PetSmart to exit the wildlife trade, starting with ending the sale of reptiles and amphibians. Amp up the pressure on PetSmart by tweeting a photo of a completed coloring page and tagging @PetSmart. You can also mail the page to PetSmart's headquarters with the message, "Animals aren't products - take the first step to exiting the wildlife trade by ending the sale of reptiles and amphibians!"

¿Desea descargar una copia en español del Libro de actividades para niños? Haga clic aquí.

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Wild Animals Aren't Pets!-Kid's Activity Book

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World Animal Protection's activity book Wild Animals Aren't Pets! explains why wild animals belong in the wild-and should never be purchased at a pet store.

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Recognize ancestral traditions and brainstorm new ones to link your family values through the generations

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Which ancestral family values do you want to pass on to your great-grand-children?

How did your ancestors affirm these values through holiday observances, traditions, and rituals?

Which rituals have grown into empty burdens that no longer highlight your values?

How have your rituals changed to fit modern life?

Which rituals could help your great-grandchildren affirm these values and remember they belong?

What are you willing to let go of?

What are you willing to make space for?

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Interactive digital experience to learn from youth impacted by incarceration

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This website would not be possible without the bravery, creativity, and brilliance of sooooo many young artists and activists who shared their work, their stories, and their demands for a world without youth prisons.

We have done our best to give credit to all of the young people and artists who contributed to the creative elements of this site, provide the source for all images, and provide references for all data. All references below were current as of April 2021.

If you see a mistake, have a question about any of these credits and references, or would like to tell us about additional images and/or data we should consider adding to the site, please send us a message.

LANDING PAGE

Art:

Art by Mer Young featuring photographs by Harris County Youth Collective organizers with additional illustrations by Kah Yangni, Amir Khadar, and Kate DeCiccio

"In a world without youth prisons..." (poem)

Poem written/edited by: Ta'Dreama, Iyana, Khai, and Kayla in collaboration with Mark Strandquist

Poetry vision sessions (to help inform and write text for the poem) were done with youth organizers from the following campaigns and organizations; Recess (NYC), Progeny (KS), Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, Maine Youth Justice, RISE for YOUTH, LA Youth Uprising, The Arts for Healing and Justice Network, Youth 4 Justice NJ, and the Care Not Control Campaign (Philadelphia).

Poetry read by: Ish-a-le Watson, Naila Lyles, Ta'Dreama, Iyana, Khai, and Kayla.

Recorded by: Mark Strandquist

Audio edited by: Nicki Stein

TRANSMISSION FROM THE FUTURE

IMPACT ON YOUTH

Detained is a virtual reality experience co-designed, filmed, storyboarded, and acted by youth impacted by the justice system, Gary Hustwit and Maya Tippett (Scenic VR) and the Performing Statistics team.

Youth collaborators; Sid, Tae and Jontae

Data Visualizations:

Data visualizations designed by Jason Killinger based on the art and stories of youth in the Performing Statistics workshops, and by the statistics shared by our partners at Columbia Justice Lab and Youth First.

Data/Statistics (linked to source):

Art:

"I wanna be an astronomer..." by O.

IMPACT ON FAMILIES

Chapter 1:

Chris's Story (Film) by Chris in collaboration with Alex Dimitriadis for Performing Statistics

Data/Statistics (linked to source):

Chapter 2:

"From a Mother." Narration by Tracey Wells-Huggins. These are the stories of many parents. They were combined into one shard narrative from the following reports: OJJDP's Family Listening Sessions

Art, statements, and photographs by:

Santiago, Osei, Sid, Tae, Chris and Chanya

HOW WE GOT HERE

Intro / Reginald Dwayne Betts story:

Narration: Ish-a-le Watson

Photo by Mamadi Doumbouya

"Essay on Reentry" (poem excerpt) by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Used with permission.

Recording of poem; Library of Congress. Life of a Poet: Reginald Dwayne Betts. 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8992

Prison Proliferation:

Stories Matter:

Community Led Abolition Wins:

SCHOOLS, STOOPS, AND CITY STREETS

SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE

Art:

Intro slideshow "Fund Education Not Incarceration." Edited by Mike Kemetic in collaboration with Lewis, Ziggy and . Used with permission from ART 180.

Lift Us Up! Don't Push Us Out! (painting) By Chanya in collaboration with Kate DeCicciofor Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

Sid's Story (film) By Sid in collaboration with Alex Dimitriadis and Mark Strandquistfor Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

"Security Cameras Are Always Watching" (video). Narration by Naila Lyles. Script/writing by Jay, Marquon, Kemari, and Reese.

Great Schools Build Great Relationships With Kids... By AR in collaboration with Kate DeCicciofor Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

Instead of Suspension Give Us Attention... By Santiago in collaboration with Kate DeCicciofor Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

Respect Our Minds, Support Our Youth... By Martavious in collaboration with Studio Two Three for Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

We Need More Money for Schools... from the Imagining Justice project in collaboration with Juvenile Law Center's Juveniles for Justice.

Schools Should Be N-lightenment...from the Imagining Justice project in collaboration with Juvenile Law Center's Juveniles for Justice

Schools Should Inspire...from the Imagining Justice project in collaboration with Juvenile Law Center's Juveniles for Justice

I need a mentor who's been in my shoes...from the Imagining Justice project in collaboration with Juvenile Law Center's Juveniles for Justice

Data/Statistics (linked to source):

After a school shooting at Columbine High School, more than 10,000 police officers were placed on school campuses across the country.

Since 2000, more than 1 million students have been arrested at school, oftent for instances that would never lead to arrest in the community.

Black youth are 3 (some stats say 4) x more likely to be suspended than white kids and expelled at 9 X the rate of white students

Approximately 2 out of 3 students dropout of school after exiting the juvenile justice system. Dropping out of high school increases risk of unemployment and of being arrested again.

Roughly 80% of incarcerated adults did not graduate from high school.

We Need a Constellation of Support

Invest in Success, Don't Invest in Arrest...By Osei in collaboration with Kate DeCicciofor Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

The mentor I need (film)... by Osei in collaboration with Ben Saunders for Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

The Counselours We need (video).... Audio by Lauren Francis in collaboration with Chris, Chanya, Santiago, and Osei. Artwork by Chris, Chanya, Santiago, and Osei. Used with permission from ART 180.

Bus Stop Posters:

We are the Future... By Sid in collaboration with Studio Two Three, Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics.

Make Equality a Fact... By Reese in collaboration with Studio Two Three, Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics.

Unlock All the Doors... By Kemari in collaboration with Studio Two Three, Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics.

Speak Up, Speak Out!... By Jay in collaboration with Studio Two Three, Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics.

Free Our Future!... By Osei in collaboration with Studio Two Three, Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

We need more Jobs in our community... By Lewis in collaboration with Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

Time is like a ticking clock... By Santiago in collaboration with Mark Strandquist and Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

We Want Youth in Power Not Prison

Freedom Constellations Mural by Kayla, Kidaya, Iyana, Khai and Ta'Dreama in collaboration withMark Strandquistand Kate DeCiccio.

Freedom Constellations (film) by Departure Point Films

Giant Portrait on building, by Ta'Dreama, an organizer with RISE for YOUTH, in collaboration with Mark Strandquist for Performing Statistics

(video) Audio by Lauren Francis in collaboration with Chris, Chanya, Santiago, and Osei. Art by Doug, Marquon, Kenelius, and Da Quon in collaboration with Kate DeCiccio for Performing Statistics. Used with permission from ART 180.

Be Better Adults (video)... Audio by Lauren Francis in collaboration with Chris, Chanya, Santiago, and Osei. Photos by Mark Strandquist in collaboration with youth organizers from across the United States; Lupita (LA Youth Uprising), Julian (The Arts for Healing and Justice Network), Mora (The Arts for Healing and Justice Network), Black (The Arts for Healing and Justice Network), My (Care Not Control campaign), Rodney (Care Not Control campaign), Will (Care Not Control campaign), Kidaya (Performing Statistics), Anonymous (Harris County Youth Collective, Anonymous (Harris County Youth Collective)

Data/Statistics (linked to source):
$100,000 - $500,000 = the cost states spend to incarcerate one child, for one year. $15,908 = the average cost to educate a child for one youth.
THE FUTURE WE DREAM OF

"In a world without youth prisons..." (poem)

Poem written/edited by: Ta'Dreama, Iyana, Khai, and Kayla in collaboration with Mark Strandquist

Poetry vision sessions (to help inform and write text for the poem) were done with youth organizers from the following campaigns and organizations; Recess (NYC), Progeny (KS), Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, Maine Youth Justice, RISE for YOUTH, LA Youth Uprising, The Arts for Healing and Justice Network, Youth 4 Justice NJ, and the Care Not Control Campaign (Philadelphia).

Poetry read by: Ish-a-le Watson, Naila Lyles, Ta'Dreama, Iyana, Khai, and Kayla.

Recorded by: Mark Strandquist

Audio edited by: Nicki Stein

Artwork in the abolitionist galaxy;

All art was inspired and based on poetry and vision sessions led by Mark Strandquist and Kate DeCiccio (Performing Statistics) with youth organizers across the United States (credited above). Artist's designs were inspired by portraits of youth organizers from across the United States (organizers and their campaigns cited below).

Lead art director for future scene: Kate DeCiccio

3rd planet

Art by Ashley Lukashevsky inspired by photographs by Lupita (LA Youth Uprising) taken by Mark Strandquist.

With additional illustrations by Kah Yangni, Amir Khadar, and Kate DeCiccio

With additional photographs by Iyana (RISE for Youth Campaign) taken by Mark Strandquist

5th planet

Art by Mer Young featuring photographs by Harris County Youth Collective organizers

With additional illustrations by Kah Yangni, Amir Khadar, and Kate DeCiccio

With additional photographs by Maine Youth Justice organizers

TAKE ACTION

Banner image; Justice Parade, Richmond, VA featuring youth organizers in the RISE for Youth Campaign wearing t-shirts designed by youth in Performing Statistics workshops. Photo by Mark Strandquist.

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End The School To Prison Pipeline: Kids Advocacy Letter Template

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The first step to working toward justice is creating a vision of the possibilities we're working toward. Performing Statistics shares a collage, photoshoot, and advocacy poster guide to help you envision a future without youth prisons

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FREE poster downloads, videos, art activities and tools designed for supporting abolitionist conversations and taking creative action!

Now is the time to act to end youth incarceration. Creative visioning shifts culture in ways that are key to political wins like ending youth incarceration. You can start today!

Scroll down to access tools we've created to help you engage more deeply in the #NoKidsinPrison digital experience.

Transmissions from the Future is a collaboration that weaves together the futurist visions of youth organizers from around the country, art from six years of Performing Statistics programming and the brilliance of five visionary artists.

The Process

Performing Statistics team members Mark Strandquist, Gina Lyles and Kate DeCiccio designed a storytelling structure that led youth organizers from around the country to teleport to 2050. Imagining from a place where they had the wisdom of elders who created a world where intergenerational trauma had healed and youth incarceration was a fossil in time, youth organizers had conversations articulating their visions of inner peace and the chance to grow into their full potential. Young people in Virginia, New Jersey, California, Maine, and Kansas contributed to these transcriptions from the future.

Next, we commissioned six incredible visual artists to work using the content collected from our conversations along with our archive of creative work by young people in our programs since 2014 as inspiration to create 'an artifact from the future.' Always we thought about this art as though it was reporting back from a world punctuated by liberation and possibility, a blueprint to reach toward.

We wanted to propose, what becomes possible when no kids are in prison!

Engaging your students in conversations about transcending youth incarceration? Imagining a world beyond youth prisons?
We designed a unit using the Transmissions from the Future project as inspiration. The simple curriculum includes three activities for your students to create their own collage or photographic poster that imagines a future world where all youth are free. We encourage you to use this curriculum as a companion to the digital experience. Lean into conversations about mapping a world without youth incarceration. Engage your classroom in conversations about what true safety and supportive community looks like. Let imagination guide students to express their thoughts, feelings and dreams! Click below to download the curriculum.

The #NoKidsinPrison digital experience could only scratch the surface on many of the issues. We often hear the same questions when we challenge our community to imagine and build a world without youth prisons, so we created the Abolitionist FAQ video series as a way to dispel some common myths and outline in more detail a world where all youth are free. This is a multi-part series, so keep an eye out for new videos throughout this year. This series was developed in collaboration with the Columbia Justice Lab.

We're standing at the edge of the end of youth incarceration. The number of young people in prisons continues to decline. The majority of Americans want kids out of cells. With a groundswell of calls to redirect money away from the carceral system and into communities, we have the opportunity to end youth incarceration in this generation.

Imagine if youth across our country felt safer, loved, supported and rooted in their communities.

By using this "How To" guide, you are part of the solution!

Thank you for taking action to help end youth incarceration.

If each of us commit to one of the action steps below, it'd me a major step toward closing all youth prisons....let alone if you come up with more unique ways to use the #NoKidsinPrison digital experience.

The 5 five suggestions to use this web experience offer a handful of ideas and templates to make your post, conversation, meeting or event as easy as possible.

If you have other brilliant ideas you'd like to discuss, please! send us a direct message.

We'd love to hear from you!
*Performing Statistics team

Share the #NoKidsinPrison digital experience on social media. You may have noticed the Facebook and Twitter icons while going through the experience. If not, just look in the upper right hand corner.

Post some of the gorgeous art from the Educator Resource section!

Or, use the suggested social media posts below!

Facebook:

The fact is; youth prisons don't work. How do we create a future without them?

Go to the: @NoKidsInPrison experience, an interactive platform from @PerformingStatistics that uses data, storytelling, and art created by youth impacted by the justice system to educate people to understand the issues and imagine a different future and take action for youth across the country.
nokidsinprison.org/experience
Twitter Youth prisons are outdated, ineffective & costly. It's time to #FreeOurYouth and dismantle the system that clearly doesn't work! Learn how at nokidsinprison.org/experience

Invite your friends, colleagues, and coworkers to view the site and have a discussion! Here are ways to consider getting started:

Organize a professional development or team-building opportunity at your workplace

Send the experience to 5 friends and go to lunch to talk about it

Bring this up at your next monthly family Zoom call

Ask to lead a conversation at your next staff meeting. Print the posters and share them.

Introduce the experience at your next grassroots organizing meeting

Sometimes an experience like the #NoKidsinPrison digital experience can leave us speechless. We don't know the right words to say or questions to ask. Here are a few options to get started. Add your own!

What section, story, or artwork did you most connect with? Surprised you the most? Challenged you the most?

What are some common themes you heard throughout the experience?

What did you learn from the experience that you didn't know before?

How did the experience make you feel?

How can you turn that feeling into action?

What does a world without youth prisons look like to you?

What are the policies, practices, and procedures where you live, local or statewide, for youth who are caught in the school-to-prison pipeline? How can you engage schools you're connected to, to be agents of interrupting the STPP?

What are the solutions young people with expert perspectives are recommending?

How you can take action today to support the movement to close youth prisons?

Engage your community to transform the youth justice system! Use the #NoKidsInPrison digital experience to bring people together, learn about the impact of youth incarceration and create a new vision for the future.

Here are ways to get started:

Ask for 5-10 minutes to show the #NKIP digital experience at upcoming meetings. Share 1 of the Abolitionist FAQ videos each week over a month.

Ask your local library to host a display where people can explore. Volunteer times when you can be there to guide the experience.

Host a table at any upcoming community events to showcase the site & share the posters.

Partner with educators to support them to include site materials and activities as part of curriculum. Volunteer to support them make their own posters using the art activities on the site.

Hold an abolitionist art challenge with your friends and create your own Transmissions from the Future. Check out the art activities. Wheat paste your art around your city and hold your elected leaders accountable to keeping young people in your community free!

Organize a virtual "Day of Action"! Share the #NoKidsInPrison experience and encourage your friends to sign the national petition calling on the Biden administration to make good on their campaign pledge to invest $100 million to close & repurpose youth prisons!

Educate your federal, state, and local officials (and their staff!) on why youth prisons need to close and funds need to be redirected to support youth in their communities.

Ask for a meeting and take 10 minutes to share the #NoKidsInPrison experience (be sure to bring a device you can show it on!) They may not have time to see the whole website, but share the sections most important to you! Encourage them to explore on their own!

Print the posters and post them in places where elected officials will see them. Take up space creating art that shows your elected leaders what a world without youth prisons looks like & call them to be part of creating it.

Have ideas you'd like to talk with us about? Use the form below to send us a message. We'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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This page includes additional resources for the #NoKidsinPrison digital experience. It includes a classroom and community curriculum, downloadable posters from the Transmission from the Future series, a new web series about abolition, and a how-to guide for hosting your own discussion or event.

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Illustated workshop notes from Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox's In our own hands curriclum workshop

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Abolition curriculum by Rania El Mugammar

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Abolition curriculum by Rania El Mugammar

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Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese artist, abolitionist, anti-oppression consultant and liberation educator. Download her guide for talking about transformative justice and abolition, along with a video workshop to guide your family through the process

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Graphic notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps

with Rania El Mugammar

This session explores tools and strategies for co-learning about transformative justice & abolition with little ones. Focusing on everyday and organized resistance, the session empowers families, communities, and children with some of the foundational questions and interventions that enable us to get closer to a just world. The workshop is grounded in imagination and possibility as core approaches to liberation.

Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese artist, abolitionist, anti-oppression consultant, and liberation educator based in Toronto. Rania's artistic and community work is deeply rooted in Black Liberation. Rania is a published writer, award-winning organizer, reproductive justice advocate, speaker, arts educator, and multidisciplinary performer.

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In Our Own Hands Resource

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Graphic notes by Laura Chow Reeve / Radical Roadmaps In Our Own Hands: Talking Transformative Justice & Abolition with Childrenwith Rania El Mugammar This...

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a young mother and daughter fly across a starry cloudy sky over a prison in the center of a densely developed city 

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This companion activity book to Mariame Kaba's 'See You Soon' features coloring pages, community-mapping strategies, and more.

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See You Soon: The Book

Queenie is the main character of See You Soon, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them. See You Soon is written by New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba and illustrated by Bianca Diaz.

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See You Soon: The Book Queenie is the main character of See You Soon, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them. See You Soon is written by New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba and illustrated by Bianca Diaz.

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venn diagram worksheet activity from Ending Genocide Toolkit

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Find a genocide memorial local to you or use this student-created Genocide Memorial Project guide to analyze the artwork using this 'Memorials and Museums Graphic Organizer' by Echoes & Reflections. How does this memorial educate, honor, and remember those lost to genocide?

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Mother and child fly across a dark night sky full of orange and yellow clouds over a tightly packed city with a prison in the center of it

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Every month, members receive an email with an activity that kids can complete to learn more about abolition: We’ll share activities like coloring pages, word searches, word scrambles, mazes, and reflection exercises. Using readings and art projects, we support children in imagining a collective future where we are all free.

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See You Soon: The Book

Queenie is the main character of See You Soon, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them. See You Soon is written by New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba and illustrated by Bianca Diaz.

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See You Soon: The Book Queenie is the main character of See You Soon, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them. See You Soon is written by New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba and illustrated by Bianca Diaz.

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Image: PDF preview of worksheet with text and lines to fill in your responses

Alison made this wonderful worksheet based on the concepts in the book 'Braiding Sweetgrass' for kids!

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Isabela - November Gifts & Reciprocity Worksheet

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Paintbrushes can be daunting - try making a wave painting instead!

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Explore Your Feelings with Art | Tate Kids

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Explore Your Feelings with Art | Tate Kids

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Ending Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing activity book

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Ending Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing Activity Book

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Ending Displacement & Ethnic Cleansing Activity Book

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All about you, your home, your family, and the people of the land we live on.

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Ceija Stojka painting of a nazi pointing his gun at young Romani family in the snow

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Create a Painting inspired by Austrian Romani artist Ceija Stojka, a self-taught artist, activist, musician, and survivor of the Holocaust.

“Stojka began painting at the age of 56 using unconventional painting implements like her fingers and toothpicks. She worked with 'everything that comes between [her] fingers,' including cardboard, glass jars, postcards, and salt dough.”- Wikipedia

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venn diagram of monuments and museums that educate, honor, and remember victims of genocide

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Raise awareness for Orange Shirt Day, process together as a family, and support Indigenous artists with these Woodlands coloring pages

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Do you need an interactive way to raise awareness for Orange Shirt Day and Indigenous art? Add this unique touch to your at home or classroom activities!

Check out this Indigenous coloring page bundle (5-Page set) created by Ojibwe artist and designer 'MG' from Sagamok First Nation. The modern contemporary Woodlands art style offers a fresh take on traditional Indigenous artwork.

This coloring page bundle includes 5 high-quality print optimized PDF files with a high resolution. You can send us a message if you prefer any other format (PNG, JPEG etc). Whether you're an educator looking to add a fun activity to your curriculum, or someone who wants to appreciate Indigenous culture and share it with others, this coloring page bundle is an excellent choice.

The bundle features popular animals that are symbolic in most Indigenous cultures; such as a Wolf, Turtle, Bear, and Bird/Flyer. We have also included our 'Guardians' Every Child Matters Design. This art framework provides a foundation for creativity, allowing you to choose your own colors and styling. Paint it, Colour it with crayon, pencil, markers, whatever you decide, the artist has given full permission! This is Indigenous art appreciation and recognition, not appropriation.

This Indigenous art coloring page bundle is perfect for anyone looking to incorporate Indigenous themes into their activities or curriculum. It's also a great choice for anyone searching for "Indigenous art," "Woodlands art style," "Ojibwe Artist," "Indigenous coloring book," and "Every Child Matters Design." or "Orange Shirt Day Activities For Kids"

You can download, print, color and then frame these in your home or classroom!
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The materials contained within this offering-including, but not limited to, each coloring page, artistic representation, and linework-are the intellectual property of RESIST Clothing Company and are safeguarded under our registered Trademark (CIPO No. 2236354 | USPTO Serial No. 97772852). These materials are intended solely for personal, non-commercial educational and entertainment uses.

By procuring and downloading the affiliated files, you are explicitly acknowledging that you do not acquire any exclusive rights to the content. Unauthorized reproduction or commercial exploitation of any element contained within this listing is strictly prohibited.

RESIST Clothing Company reserves all exclusive rights to these images. We are committed to the enforcement of our Intellectual Property Rights and will pursue legal action against violations with the utmost vigilance and determination. Unauthorized use of these materials may result in legal consequences, including, but not limited to, monetary damages, injunctions, and attorney's fees.

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Do you need an interactive way to raise awareness for Orange Shirt Day and Indigenous art? Add this unique touch to your at home or classroom activities!

Check out this Indigenous coloring page bundle (5-Page set) created by Ojibwe artist and designer 'MG' from Sagamok First Nation. The modern contemporary Woodlands art style offers a fresh take on traditional Indigenous artwork.

This coloring page bundle includes 5 high-quality print optimized PDF files with a high resolution. You can send us a message if you prefer any other format (PNG, JPEG etc). Whether you're an educator looking to add a fun activity to your curriculum, or someone who wants to appreciate Indigenous culture and share it with others, this coloring page bundle is an excellent choice.

The bundle features popular animals that are symbolic in most Indigenous cultures; such as a Wolf, Turtle, Bear, and Bird/Flyer. We have also included our 'Guardians' Every Child Matters Design. This art framework provides a foundation for creativity, allowing you to choose your own colors and styling. Paint it, Colour it with crayon, pencil, markers, whatever you decide, the artist has given full permission! This is Indigenous art appreciation and recognition, not appropriation.

This Indigenous art coloring page bundle is perfect for anyone looking to incorporate Indigenous themes into their activities or curriculum. It's also a great choice for anyone searching for "Indigenous art," "Woodlands art style," "Ojibwe Artist," "Indigenous coloring book," and "Every Child Matters Design." or "Orange Shirt Day Activities For Kids"

You can download, print, color and then frame these in your home or classroom!
COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
The materials contained within this offering-including, but not limited to, each coloring page, artistic representation, and linework-are the intellectual property of RESIST Clothing Company and are safeguarded under our registered Trademark (CIPO No. 2236354 | USPTO Serial No. 97772852). These materials are intended solely for personal, non-commercial educational and entertainment uses.

By procuring and downloading the affiliated files, you are explicitly acknowledging that you do not acquire any exclusive rights to the content. Unauthorized reproduction or commercial exploitation of any element contained within this listing is strictly prohibited.

RESIST Clothing Company reserves all exclusive rights to these images. We are committed to the enforcement of our Intellectual Property Rights and will pursue legal action against violations with the utmost vigilance and determination. Unauthorized use of these materials may result in legal consequences, including, but not limited to, monetary damages, injunctions, and attorney's fees.

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Woodlands Art Colouring Pages Bundle | Digital Download | 5-Page Set | Authentic Ojibwe Designs | PNG,PDF

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Discover unique Indigenous art with our 5-page coloring book bundle, perfect for Orange Shirt Day activities and beyond. Created by Ojibwe artist and designer 'MG', it features modern Woodlands art, symbolic animals, and an 'Every Child Matters Design'. Ideal for educators or anyone who appreciates Indigenous culture.

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Video, worksheet & cutouts available at Reflection Press

https://www.genderwheel.com/resources/this-months-free-downloads/

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Downloadable PDF workbook for kids to evaluate stories through the Books for Littles lens.

Created for the upcoming anti-censorship & book bans Family Action Toolkit.

Via Ashia & Raising Luminaries

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Feelings Wheel Coloring Sheet (with family discussion questions) to accompany Little Feminist Book Club’s board book Little Faces Big Feelings

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5 children's rights with illustrated kids playing, including be protected, educated, healthy, treated fairly, and heard.

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Children's Rights?

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Children's Rights?

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Series of Kahoot! quizzes via Unicef

Click here to access: https://create.kahoot.it/pages/32c22a99-b815-4a16-8bf1-ec2915c82986?_=1571351723

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聯合國兒童基金香港委員會 UNICEF Hong Kong｜攜手為兒童

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聯合國兒童基金會（UNICEF）透過各方面的工作，致力促進每一名兒童的權利和福祉。 · 我們與合作伙伴在190多個國家和地區工作，以實際行動兌現承諾，並特別關注和幫助 ...

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Fun Stuff | We Move Together: image of girl with brown skin and a purple hijab, licking blue ice cream from a cone.

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Disability Access Coloring & Activity pages

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Disability Access Coloring & Activity pages

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From the authors of 'We Move Together' - find companion activities from the book including coloring, advocacy posters, and activity sheets

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Fun stuff There's nothing boring about disability culture and community! Download word searches, colouring pages, and more! Drawing and Colouring Games and Puzzles

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children's rights affirmation card printable. illustrated human figure. text: "I have the right to choose who can touch my body, and how"

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via Ashia from Raising Luminaries,
From the Children's Rights & Anti-Childism toolkit

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Via Revolutionary Humans

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Community Connection String Art Activity

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Community Connection String Art Activity

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I started with an invitation to create in our Creation Station. Already messy watercolors, crayons, pastels, and dot markers. I encouraged the kids to patiently create- starting with crayons and pastels and enjoying the effect of the watercolors over the wax scribbles.

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Paper Doll Collage Art Creative Resources for the Socially Conscious Revolutionary Humans

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Visit
https://www.girlswhocodegirls.com/

Don't let the tech scare you - no coding experience necessary!

Feminine videogame avatars designed by men tend to be hypersexualized, and gross.

Here, girls & nonbinary kids can design their own avatar with a simple introduction to CSS, Python & HTML languages.

Works best on a desktop or laptop.
via Girls Who Code

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How to draw a chibi-style nine-tailed fox

via Aram of 'How To Draw For Kids.' More trickster activities in the Raising Luminaries Trickster Toolkit: https://booksforlittles.com/trickster-toolkit-for-kids/

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How to Draw a Nine-Tailed Fox - Easy Drawing Tutorial For Kids

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This lesson on how to draw a nine-tailed fox will be done in the simplest possible style, close to the chibi style. The character from my example does not have complex details, and the proportions are close to hypertrophied cartoonish. This drawing lesson will teach a young artist to draw unusual characters based on real animals or people.

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Get kids motivated to read trickster stories from around the world with the RL Trickster Bingo printable.

via our Trickster Toolkit: https://booksforlittles.com/trickster-toolkit-for-kids/

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Trace or Print Trickster Affirmation Cards

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Trace or Print Trickster Affirmation Cards

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Printable or traceable affirmation cards for little rebels. Via Raising Luminaries for the Trickster Toolkit: https://booksforlittles.com/trickster-toolkit-for-kids/

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Printable files to create your own Sun Wukong baby mobile for the rebel infant in your life, via Raising Luminaries from the trickster toolkit: https://booksforlittles.com/trickster-toolkit-for-kids/

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Find a local aging-in-place organization where you can volunteer to check in on an elder during storms, find an elder who will repair your small appliances for free, and other unique ways of supporting each other.

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Village Map - Village to Village Network, Inc.

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Enter any of the following fields to search for a village or just browse the map!

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Downloadable PDF bingo chart of ageist tripes in kids media.

Via Raising Luminaries

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A gun 2-minute quiz to see where you sit on the ageism spectrum, via EveryAge Counts.

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Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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Interactive guidebook for kids with prompts for older adults to share the stories of our ancestors (both biological and chosen family).

Via The Earthquakes of Raising Luminaries

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Ancestor Interview by Raising Luminaries

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Make or hack your wardrobe so that it fully celebrates the intersection of all of your identities, via Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments

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No Sew Creative Dressing with Sky Cubacub

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Create your own fashion runway show by collecting images from the web of outfits and styles that both LOOK GOOD and FEEEL GOOD on your unique body.

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Fashion Show Activity by Raising Luminaries on Pinterest

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Explore a hand-picked collection of Pins about Fashion Show Activity by Raising Luminaries on Pinterest.

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What My Body Does For me worksheet via Plant Love Grow

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Download at https://www.plantlovegrow.com/self-esteem

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Affirming & celebrating our uniqueness inside & out with positive discussions and reflective artwork via Revolutionary Humans

https://revolutionaryhumans.com/self

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Have a second copy of your favorite book? Create a rip-apart retelling video with mixed media.

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Create your own Daruma doll, then learn about resilience in Japanese & Japanese American culture with the story 'Yuko-Chan and the Daruma Doll.'

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How to make a Daruma Doll | Craft Nation For Kids

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via Little Feminist Book Club (afflink)

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Free Printable: Do You Know These Black Heroes? | Little Feminist

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Use this matching game (and coloring sheet) to teach your kids/students more about Black heroes. Download, print and share this PDF!

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Via Samantha Cotterill

Full set of printable poster & activities at https://www.samanthacotterill.com/resources.html

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via Samantha Cotterill: https://www.samanthacotterill.com/resources.html

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Cutout & illustration project via Samanta Cotterill. Sign up for her email list for more free resources at SamanthaCotterill.com

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Activity Book: Understanding Systemic Racism

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Activity Book: Understanding Systemic Racism

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via Kids of Colour

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I can't find the original source for this animated gif of a pop-up book but I LOVE THE IDEA

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via PBS kids

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Make a Rainbow Ribbon Flag | Crafts for Kids

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Take pride and have fun with this cute rainbow flag craft you can do with your kids at home.

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via PBS kids

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Give Thanks With a Gratitude Jar | Crafts for Kids

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A gratitude jar is the perfect project to help your child express thankfulness! As they draw the things for which they are thankful, add the drawings to the jar and watch the collection grow.

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via Sesame Street

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The Big Idea: Positive affirmations can build confidence and a strong sense of self-worth and identity. Repeating them is a powerful way to keep big ideas in our heads and hearts when we need them most.

I Am Somebody

Download printable

Print these cards, cut them apart, and keep them in an envelope.

Children can pick one at random as a morning or bedtime ritual (or keep them in your bag or glove compartment to use anytime). Read the card aloud, ask your child to repeat it, say it together, and try chanting it or singing it, too!

Together, think of more, and write them on blank squares. Make as many more as you like. You can also leave them as notes for your child to find.

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I Am Somebody | Sesame Street in Communities

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The Big Idea: Positive affirmations can build confidence and a strong sense of self-worth and identity. Repeating them is a powerful way to keep big ideas in our heads and hearts when we need them most. I Am Somebody Download printable Print these cards, cut them apart, and keep them in an envelope.

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Printable pod-mapping worksheet with circles

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via Bay Area Transformative Justice Coalition

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What We Believe printable coloring pages

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via Laleña Garcia & Caryn Davidson

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via Reflection Press

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We The People: Self-Publishing Resources - Reflection Press

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Thank you for your interest in getting more Radical & Relevant books out into the world!get started on your publishing revolution with the PDFs below The 3R's of Children's Books as a Radical Act: The 3R's of Children's Books as a Radical Act take the power away from silence and invisibility and focus on bringing [...]

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via Reflection Press

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Gender Wheel Curriculum - Reflection Press

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View some of our free resources below. Gender Wheel® Curriculum: Visit the website dedicated to our Gender Wheel Curriculum, a holistic, nature-based approach to understanding gender for kids. Lots of free resources and downloads! "Which Outfit?" Activity Sheet: Activity page from the Gender Now Coloring Book and Gender Now Activity Book: School Edition.

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via Reflection Press

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These images were originally created for a Kid Lit Equality campaign back in 2014 when Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, MO. The campaign was specifically drawing the connections between the lack of reflection in children's books for our black and brown children and the resulting violence and risk these children face into [...]

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Via Reflection Press

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Coloring Pages & other fun stuff - Reflection Press

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Coloring Pages for kids of ALL ages! Remember, Everyone is an Artist! Click each image to open PDF in new window to download or print. Self-Portrait with Natural Self-Respect Artwork from the When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times. Exploring Gender Now Artwork from the Gender Now Coloring Book.

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Create your own Rising Up watercolor painting

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via Firelei Báez, ICA Boston

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Create an honorific iconographic portrait

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Create an honorific iconographic portrait

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via Marlon Forrester, ICA Boston

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via ICA Boston

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via Sergio Salicio-Lupiañez, ICA Boston

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via Kelly Chen, ICA Boston

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via Bellamy Shoffner, Revolutionary Humans

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I started with an invitation to create in our Creation Station. Already messy watercolors, crayons, pastels, and dot markers. I encouraged the kids to patiently create- starting with crayons and pastels and enjoying the effect of the watercolors over the wax scribbles.

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Paper Doll Collage Art Creative Resources for the Socially Conscious Revolutionary Humans

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I started with an invitation to create in our Creation Station. Already messy watercolors, crayons, pastels, and dot markers. I encouraged the kids to patiently create- starting with crayons and pastels and enjoying the effect of the watercolors over the wax scribbles.

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Create a Julian-Opie-esque Family Mobile

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Create a Julian-Opie-esque Family Mobile

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When R2 was a newborn, I used created portraits of our family members in the style of Julian Opie.

We used used a mobile to hang the portraits where he could see them from his crib, and propped them up for tummy time.

He particularly loved the portraits of our family with beards

what you'll need:

White paper

Pencil

Thick-tipped black marker

Close-up digital photo of 2-5 family members

(optional) Kikkerland hanging photo mobile (Books for littles affiliate link)

How to:

Use your computer or phone as a light box and trace a VERY simple outline on your paper. Use pencil so the marker doesn't bleed onto your screen.

Off the screen, trace the pencil with the marker.

Hang your portraits with tape or a photo mobile so your kiddo can see them

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via Little Feminist Book Club (affiliate link)

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via ICA Teen Arts Council (TAC) members: Cici Marléne B., Ky B., Mintou B., Rosaylin B., and Scania G., ICA

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via Sergio Salicio-Lupiañez, ICA Boston

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Download PDF Download mask template

Are you ready to protect your community? Are you willing to !ght for justice? Show your super skills by making your own superhero mask!
This activity is adaptable for beginners to experts. Younger children may need assistance using scissors to cut cardboard/paper. Great for individuals, groups, and families to work on together at home.
Materials:

Instructions:

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If using the included mask template, move on to step 2. If designing your own mask, work with a buddy at home to measure the width of your face. Have your buddy hold up the piece of paper to your face and use a pencil to carefully make "X" marks on the paper at each of your temples. (Your temples are between your eyes and ears.) Sketch your mask and be sure the design reaches each "X" mark.

This activity was created by Sergio Salicio-Lupiañez, Visitor Assistant.
Share your art with friends and family and on social media with #ICAArtLab or email us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.

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Download PDF Download mask template Are you ready to protect your community? Are you willing to !ght for justice? Show your super skills by making your own superhero mask! This activity is adaptable for beginners to experts. Younger children may need assistance using scissors to cut cardboard/paper.

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via Bellamy Shoffner & Revolutionary Humans

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We made these little friends out of painted paper and other supplies that most households have on hand. Kids can spend the whole afternoon designing outfits and hairstyles for their paper doll buds. Set up a creation station and craft the day away. As a bonus, talk about the difference with your friends, both paper and IRL. Click the graphic above for more info.

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Self Creative Resources for the Socially Conscious Revolutionary Humans

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We made these little friends out of painted paper and other supplies that most households have on hand. Kids can spend the whole afternoon designing outfits and hairstyles for their paper doll buds. Set up a creation station and craft the day away. As a bonus, talk about the difference with your friends, both paper and IRL.

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STEP 2: ADD DETAILS: At what age could your kid do this with minimal guidance from a grown-up?

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STEP 2: ADD DETAILS: At what age could your kid do this with minimal guidance from a grown-up?

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We're all busy - and not all of us love 'hands on activities'

So pick an 'age' column where kids can manage activities without too much hands-on work for grown-ups.

Due to overwhelming member requests - we’re sorting activities ‘by typical developmental age’ for a rough idea on whether kids can handle an activity on their own.

Abled expectations for motor ability, vision & reading skills are super problematic - but since those of us with disabilities can also use ‘typical age’ to gauge whether an activity matches our kids’ skills, we’ll use this shortcut for now.

When recommending resources, note your child’s age and any diverging abilities or disabilities (ex: whether they are an advanced reader, have fine-motor disabilities or executive functioning challenges)

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STEP 1: Share your kid's favorite rainy-day social justice activity on this board

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STEP 1: Share your kid's favorite rainy-day social justice activity on this board

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Add your links, documents, or tips on this board.

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STEP 3: Get More: Visit Books For Littles for more social justice activities & toolkits

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STEP 3: Get More: Visit Books For Littles for more social justice activities & toolkits