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I am a daughter of white supremacy, trying to be a mother of the revolution.

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The site I teach at is returning to anti-racist work after a few years on pause because of such pushback from white faculty. I am a part of the leadership team for this work now. The pushback is still there but as a new, white team member I am trying to do my part to address the white fragility and white guilt and be a resource.

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still figuring out how to show up

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I am a white queer woman and I am struggling for liberation and abolition in my classroom and school site. My school site is a place of compliance with white supremacy and racism and I show up as an agitator and dissenter in this space.

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I am struggling for my local urban rez.

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I am a black female educator who is still realizing the depths of my oppression and trauma after years of assimilating. Also realizing how I as an educator have upheld white supremist culture and working to change that. 

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I am a black female educator who is still realizing the depths of my oppression and trauma after years of assimilating. Also realizing how I as an educator have upheld white supremist culture and working to change that. 

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Who am I? What am I struggling for? How do my identities connect to, interweave with and/or complicate this struggle? 

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Who am I? What am I struggling for? How do my identities connect to, interweave with and/or complicate this struggle? 

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I am the daughter of Mexican immigrants, I am the descendant of Indígenas and Spanish colonizers, I am able-bodied, multilingual, cis-gender, and economically stable. I am struggling for peace, internal and external. I am struggling for the liberation of the students and families I serve. I recognize the privilege of my education, and I want to co-create a world where young people have freedom and access. May they live the life they choose to live, and may they be safe when they walk onto the streets. I want them to be seen as fully human and capable of greatness. My identity interweaves with this struggle because I feel that there were people in my life who gave me the chance to work for a better future, and if they didn’t see me as a child with potential, I wouldn’t be here right now. I want all people to make the compromises necessary to give every single person a fighting chance, even if that means giving up some of the comforts of a privileged life. 

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A site where liberation is in the conversation at all times

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My org receives our funding from the state and have to by for contracts with schools and districts. This can serve as a conservative making dynamic, reliant on the market and the state. I have tried to find spaces in this structure but have failed a systematic response. I raise questions and make discrete changes.

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I show up on my site as an admin, Program Director, part of the Multi-Cultural Leadership Committee as well as serve as a Staff Trustee on the Board and chair the Equity a& Inclusion Board Committee.

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I show up on my site as an admin, Program Director, part of the Multi-Cultural Leadership Committee as well as serve as a Staff Trustee on the Board and chair the Equity a& Inclusion Board Committee.

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This is a site where we share who we are and express our thoughts on social justice in education

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I am a middle aged white cisgendered woman, mother, daughter, sister. I am an elementary school teacher. I am struggling for the community I live in and was raised in. 

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I am a middle aged white cisgendered woman, mother, daughter, sister. I am an elementary school teacher. I am struggling for the community I live in and was raised in. 

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I am a Daughter of a Carribean woman. An immigrant who came to the US and worked feverishly to speak American. To act American. To assimilate into a culture not her own. I am  a black woman struggling to find ways of dismantling systematic oppressions I’ve experienced, that my community have experienced. Some of which were in my own home. I am unlearning self-hatred that my parents have instilled within me. I have learned to love myself the colors of my home island... the cuisine... the culture. I am also trying to help my community and find my place within to lift every life and voice within upward. As an educator I teach my youth to look to their heritage, to ask questions. To know where they came from.  That will inspire pride, that will breed love and that is the first step (of many)  to overcome struggle

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I am a Chinese American woman educating in the ethnic enclave in which I also grew up. I am working with colleagues and students within affinity and across difference to build a space of liberation for our community of color. In the skin I'm in, I can easily become complicit in the system, but am intentionally and actively working to have hard conversations about race, equity, and power at my site.

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I am a weaver and circle holder; still growing and trying to not just critique but radically dream about mathematics in particular; I show up by not allowing others to hide behind a universality or objectivity in my field

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I am a weaver and circle holder; still growing and trying to not just critique but radically dream about mathematics in particular; I show up by not allowing others to hide behind a universality or objectivity in my field

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I show up as an LGBTQ+ Latinx human and my role is to bring my lense into the curriculum and give voice to my students.

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I am struggling with channeling my own oppression and frustration into holding productive and liberating spaces for the teachers that are holding space for our students and their families. I feel too tired to hold more.

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In my adult life I have moved into more elite spaces that are white dominated. I try and use my access and increased privilege to raise questions of equity and racial justice. While my closest relationships are with my colleagues of color, our relationships largely extend from experiences in white dominant spaces.

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I have seen time and time again how schools aim to assimilate students of all color. I myself have been a victim of "white-washed" education. Only successes of white men were told, not the triumph of my ancestors. I hope to be part of an educational community that breaks this mold and provides a safe place for all students, especially those who are part of a marginalized group. I feel that it is my job to provide my students with the resources necessary regarding identity, race, social inequity, and so on. 

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I have seen time and time again how schools aim to assimilate students of all color. I myself have been a victim of "white-washed" education. Only successes of white men were told, not the triumph of my ancestors. I hope to be part of an educational community that breaks this mold and provides a safe place for all students, especially those who are part of a marginalized group. I feel that it is my job to provide my students with the resources necessary regarding identity, race, social inequity, and so on. 

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I am a white woman navigating my bisexuality. I own my whiteness, meaning I work to check my white privilege daily and invite racial justice dialogues in all contexts, both personal and professional.

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my identities complicate my struggle bc I know I oppressed, but definitely not as much as other BIPOC... so although I want to use my space & voice, I don’t want to take space from others

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I am a Black Latina queer woman educator at a charter school in Oakland teaching 8th grade Humanities--trying to teach reading and writing in a liberatory and authentic way.

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I am a Black Latina queer woman educator at a charter school in Oakland teaching 8th grade Humanities--trying to teach reading and writing in a liberatory and authentic way.

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trying to serve as a source of strength to redefine what it means to be a teacher in the classroom

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I am struggling on how to de center myself since I benefit from privilege. I came from an upper class family and I am serving

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I am a Filipina-American woman, a child of immigrant parents, grew up in low economic status. I am struggling for disrupting whiteness that has been ingrained in my lifestyle. Wanting to belong in an America where I was not "American" enough, nor Filipino enough. Now learning that I can define what my Filipino-American identity can be and find pride in both cultures and traditions, centering my roots. My identity interweaves with my journey in education by disrupting the white standards and whiteness that seeps into my planning or teaching, unintentionally.

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I am struggling for a more just world where we all have enough. Where we are all cared fir and caring for and are connected to each other, our shared history, and the natural world.

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The site at which i teach is a site of liberation in the sense I am able to re-imagine curriculum.  It is a site of compliance in every other way.

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The site I work at is a space that is deeply concerned about compliance. My school uses grades as a punishment, and many other factors play into "controlling" instead of liberating students. I resist this by working to build a gradeless class. My role serves to help students find their spaces, their groups of people so that they may easily understand themselves, their liberation and empowerment.

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I am a queer Chinese-American woman woking at an independent school. As an admin struggling to navigate the COVID pandemic while continuing to do this work in a re-opened school where are workloads are doubled and we are all hanging by a thread.

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I am a queer Chinese-American woman woking at an independent school. As an admin struggling to navigate the COVID pandemic while continuing to do this work in a re-opened school where are workloads are doubled and we are all hanging by a thread.

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I am a Chinese American educator who has been through the entire public school system. I am the voice of minorities in my very white elementary school and am part of a team of teachers who put our principal/staff/parents in check when we sense/hear racial biases.

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I am the daughter of Filipino immigrants that voted for Trump. I am an educator that is fighting the white cis narrative in my classroom. I am unpacking my own biases. I am helping to lead my school to be a place that focuses on teacher, student, staff and community wellness. I am my students and they are me.

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I am a white woman who understands what that means. I’ve fought against white supremacy all my life. I’ve taken hits from my own people because I have refused to invest in it or believe what they co-opted me to be. I’m a socialist who believes in the collective. I am a community member who walks the streets of the city where I teach and live.

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I am struggling to provide tutoring to black and brown K-12 students in Math and Science by people who look like our students to raise money to support the process. My role is consulting the founder in navigating the system to support students in schools and in non profit organizations.  This is liberation work and breaking the norms.  I show up with the audacity of re-imagining how teaching and learning should be.  I am finding our tutors are actually teaching instead of tutoring due to the broken education system and inconsistent teaching quality to black and brown students.

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I am struggling to provide tutoring to black and brown K-12 students in Math and Science by people who look like our students to raise money to support the process. My role is consulting the founder in navigating the system to support students in schools and in non profit organizations.  This is liberation work and breaking the norms.  I show up with the audacity of re-imagining how teaching and learning should be.  I am finding our tutors are actually teaching instead of tutoring due to the broken education system and inconsistent teaching quality to black and brown students.

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I am a Filipina educator that is part of the movement towards liberation through fostering community care and critical consciousness in the spaces I occupy. 

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I am a Filipina educator that is part of the movement towards liberation through fostering community care and critical consciousness in the spaces I occupy. 

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I am the daughter of immigrant parents that moved from low-income to working to middle-class. The influence of US colonization on their mindset and beliefs of the world shaped my views until I unpacked and (un)learned in college. When advising or teaching students, I still work within institutions despite moving towards greater change in reframing the classroom or policy work. I am responsible for cultivating brave space for my students to learn about their identity and ways to bring positive change to their community and the world.

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First generation American, child of refugees, and trying to be an ally if I cannot be a co-conspirator

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I am a brown woman. A daughter of an immigrant from El Salvador and a first generation Chinese-American. I am a speech-language pathologist working with children that are preschool age and their families. I am struggling for their liberation and for my profession to meaningfully diversify. Currently my field is 92% white and only 8% people of color. Speech pathologists work in the educational system as well as healthcare. My identities interweave in this struggle because I see my own liberation could be possible if meaningful change happens in my field and for my students.

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A foreigner constantly trying to fit in

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I am a white, citizen, cis, not poor, woman & teacher who is trying to figure out how to participate in struggles for liberation. Specifically struggling to support my students in their struggle for liberation. My identity as a white person means that I have had and still have a lot to unlearn. I think I've started to see how one of the most important things I can do as an educator is to affirm, recognize, and make space for my Black and brown students to show what wisdom the and truth they hold.

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I am a multiracial, multiethnic, queer, fat, disabled, (I prefer this term) neuroatypical, working class, Indigenous, leftist, daughter of immigrants.

I am a restorative, transformative, anti fascist, anti racist, anti capitalist, liberators, decolonizing educator who believes in critical pedagogy.

My white skin complicates my participation in the struggle because how I look to others here in the Bay Area doesn’t match my ethnic, cultural, values and experience. I have made a big transition from living somewhere that saw me as Latina and other and a target for violence to a place that sees me as part of a group that perpetrates that violence. I walk between worlds in the liminal space, not belonging anywhere or with anyone while recognizing I am given privileges I don’t even see and using privileges I do see to fight oppression in all its forms.

I stay here in this world so that I can continue to honor my ancestors and all of my relations.

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I am a someone who has a lot of privilege. I am a white, cis, and straight woman.

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i am a neurodivergent non-binary indian womxn, struggling to become an educator, struggling to create space for black kids, indigenous kids, kids of color, poor kids, trans kids, queer kids, neurodivergent kids. I want to support all my kids not just in healing but in thriving and fighting for what is life-affirming for them.

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As a Filipina in leadership I strive to highlight the voices of our teachers that are working towards liberation. How do I ensure that I uplift our students. I need to intentionally hold space. It is a skill that I am still trying to build.

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I am an African immigrant and educator serving in an underserved community. I am struggling to bring a more equitable education for many of the students that look like me. Frequently communities as such have the least resources and curricula that do NOT center black and brown people. As an educator, I hope to provide a better informed education (as much as I can) remembering to create space for my students to thrive and not just survive through.

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I am an African immigrant and educator serving in an underserved community. I am struggling to bring a more equitable education for many of the students that look like me. Frequently communities as such have the least resources and curricula that do NOT center black and brown people. As an educator, I hope to provide a better informed education (as much as I can) remembering to create space for my students to thrive and not just survive through.

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I am a working class white woman whose history has been tied to assimilation. My identities connect to the fight for liberation, but they also deeply complicate it (i.e. gender binary, whiteness.)

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i am a white trans preschool teacher, struggling for a world where liberation feels like playing/dreaming/creating abundance for all. i'm teaching and organizing with a community of 4 yr olds and the grownups that love them, mostly white, wealthy, and progressive. i feel liberation in this site where we're finding joy in learning about resistance and playing with gender and telling new stories. i feel compliance where our privileged conversations get stuck in talking, how to shift us into action that makes the world safer and more free for Black and brown people, poor people, disabled people, queer people

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I am white women raised in a community of artists and activists trying to live in a way that would foster more justness. I am trying to live my life inspired by this model and informed by the experiences I had being a minority in my community and welcomed into the homes and folkways of my Black neighbors.

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I am Queer multi-racial women of color who have benefited from generations of white privilege. I'm struggling to live free and loud as I am and fight with and among others to be free to do so as well. I have taught at places that support the white capitalist patriarchy system and have failed to rise up against. I am truly lucky to work education space that tries to fight against the system within it. I hope to continue learning in order play a role in the struggle for liberation.

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The site I work in is a charter school, and uses a lot of the language of SJ and wants to so badly eliminate anti-blackness in our community, by hiring more Black.Brown educators that reflect our students, however, we are constantly assessing our students with standardized tests in order to stay in operation (charter renewal) and this tension is superficially addressed but not really. I need to understand my role as a Black woman educator to help sustain this school that I believe in while trying to disrupt oppressive patterns

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White male educator in a diverse community and father of multiracial children looking to raise voices that are subversive and smash the status quo.

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I am a multiracial educator teaching at a school with all white teachers. I teach in a District that doesn’t support or use the voices of it’s teachers of color. I am trying to bring our voices together to make change that is so desperately needed where even our local teacher’s association doesn’t represent us. I’m tired of having to educate those whose fragility hinders their ability for real change. I am tired.

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white cis woman teacher descendant of Mayflower colonists 

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white cis woman teacher descendant of Mayflower colonists 

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I am struggling to make up for the actions of my ancestors.  I am struggling to prioritize the needs of students who have not been a priority to the educational system since its inception.  I come to my classroom with a ton of privilege. My school attempts to be a place of liberation but depends on the privilege of so many of their community that it is difficult

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I am a cis white female MS teacher, raised in the country. I teach at the same school I went to. I play a role in critically addressing my silence, complacency and duplication of white supremacy. The school space can be a site for liberation and transformation as we build coalition, act and amplify.

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I am 60+ Jewish person perceived as white but not considered white by many as soon as they know I am a Jew. I am endeavoring to start a social justice committee in my district and to instill in my students (100% BIPOC) a sense of their agency in being advocates for social justice-even at element

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I am always thinking about the complexities of being part some historically marginalized groups, while at the same time acknowledging all the ways that I must see my privileges in the world. Thinking of how to focus my work on how I can be solidarity with so many different marginalized groups whose experiences and are impacting them in many different ways today.

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cis gendered Latinx womxn, daughter of a farmworker and electrician, trying to be a good relative and continue the work of my ancestors  

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cis gendered Latinx womxn, daughter of a farmworker and electrician, trying to be a good relative and continue the work of my ancestors  

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I’m Mexican from Mexico

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I am a pretty, thin, white able-bodied bisexual cis woman from an assimilated Jewish family. I am lucky to be healthy, to have my family and friends healthy. I am a passionate teacher, most of my students are Latinx. I am struggling to humanize my learning space and teach kids about freedom fighters. I think my identity as a cis white woman complicates my struggle. And experience of the pandemic has been sheltered. So I feel nervous about teaching from a place of oblivious privilege

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I am a pretty, thin, white able-bodied bisexual cis woman from an assimilated Jewish family. I am lucky to be healthy, to have my family and friends healthy. I am a passionate teacher, most of my students are Latinx. I am struggling to humanize my learning space and teach kids about freedom fighters. I think my identity as a cis white woman complicates my struggle. And experience of the pandemic has been sheltered. So I feel nervous about teaching from a place of oblivious privilege

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I am a Mexican American woman aspiring to be a teacher.  I am struggling with my own disability. of hard of hearing.

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I am a first generation Mexican college student who is striving to be an educator. I constantly find myself struggling with my identity. I was never properly educated on my background and my roots. I hope to change that cycle and guide my future students to finding who they are, too.

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White, cis-female, ELA/EL secondary teacher in Seattle, WA

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White, cis-female, ELA/EL secondary teacher in Seattle, WA

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I am currently teaching at a public in school in a very wealthy neighborhood in the very segregated city of Seattle. The cultures of power in my school serve to benefit the white, wealthy, Native English-speaking (etc. etc. etc.) students. The small population of students of color, non-native English speaking, working class or impoverished, houseless students at my school are made to be invisible in their school experience and education. There are long-standing imbalances of power among veteran teachers at this school that

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I always reflect on how my identity as a successful student operates in my pedagogy. I have to work to insure that my caring is not conditional on a student’s degree of acceptance of the system of schooling, what Angela Valenzuela calls aesthetic caring, or a kind of technocratic caring. My school is a site of deep compliance within the education industrial-complex. I get told all of the time that I’m “grading with my feelings” or giving “participation trophies” to students, like in my no-F-no-D grading policy for the entirety of this farce called distance learning. But is this liberation? I don’t think it is. I think it’s still a teacher of privilege making do within the system. I yearn to know what liberation looks like, and I yearn to have the love to take the risks it entails. I feel like I’m too good at working within the system and haven’t even gotten close to liberation.

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I am a beneficiary of a lot of familial privilege.  I am struggling for growth... I support my siblings of color in navigating and chipping away the notion of value and prestige.  The struggle is that I am also challenged by the pressure of prestige.  I challenge more than I accept... but I still accept a helluva lot.  My students push me as much as I push them.  Maybe more.  Am I putting them in safe situations, am I preparing them to be resilient and bold?

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Another white woman in the education system

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Another white woman in the education system

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Struggling to learn how to support BIPOC in reimagining education, to use my power, position, and privilege to freedom dream - conflicted that I am in a private school setting back on campus while public schools are not - the gap is widening. Constantly asking myself how to contribute to a better way forward

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I am (another) white woman teacher, though young and queer. Teaching 95% white students; and their families are largely the top .001% in income nationally. The school feels so compliant even while it's perceived as relatively progressive. The bar for "progressive" is so low when every other dad is a multi-millionaire... Personally, feeling both so complicit and also so isolated in dreams/work towards liberation in this particular environment. Work towards liberation ideally is being done on all sorts of sites, but do think that this school will never be a liberatory space without being torn down and completely reevaluated.

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I am a white woman educated raised by a single former hippie mom teaching at an all-girls independent school.  The choice speaks to my belief that education creates opportunities for women.  I realized I have been part of maintaining the patriarchal/capitalist system by training women how to get by; not teaching them how to dismantle and rebuild.  I worry that my teaching lands best with the white and/or privileged students.  

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I am a white woman educated raised by a single former hippie mom teaching at an all-girls independent school.  The choice speaks to my belief that education creates opportunities for women.  I realized I have been part of maintaining the patriarchal/capitalist system by training women how to get by; not teaching them how to dismantle and rebuild.  I worry that my teaching lands best with the white and/or privileged students.  

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Hope to serve people in need

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I am the daughter of poor immigrant parents. I am a person of size, a Brown woman. I am a person that takes up space in both the educational and social work field. I am a person with many resiliency factors and resources. I AM LOVED.

For many of my younger years, I felt voiceless. I internalized many of the struggles of my folks, my community, and the direct trauma I endured. I also internalized the LOVE, CARE, AND support of my folks and community.

So how do these identities connect? For me, I believe I have a responsibility to utilize the places I do have power and privilege to uplift and center those most oppressed. I believe I have a responsibility to my ancestors to be sustainable and strive for joy in the spaces my students and families occupy. To lead with humility. To demand for reparations of our BIPOC communities.

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What is the role of school to me and the students I teach?  What will they need to know to survive in this time and place?  What information is no longer necessary to reinforce, even if it is embedded in the way school is structured?

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I am a Latinx(e) who is struggling for equity in life and in the subject I teach. Physical Education like much of education has not changed and is centered around patriarchy.

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It has the potentiality to be a place of liberation. There are pockets. I think being able to teach Ethnic Studies at Santa Ana HS and having an advanced class is something. We heal, learn and create community. It is providing a glimpse of visioning that is possible. I show up as fully present to create a collective that centers students. I think my role as educator is really as facilitator to create a conduit to deep dreaming and visioning of justice and liberation

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Cat Brooks said it well - who is included in the 'we'? How do we draw boundaries around community,  balance inclusivity with safety & depth, and enable our selves to grow into the new version? I feel disconnected and incapable in that isolation, but I believe in community in theory and am seeking it in practice, hoping to build in the cracks.

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I am a Japanese American multiracial educator. I am wholeheartedly committed to being a co-conspirator and educator. I am struggling to find ways to inspire other adults to take a more active role in this movement for social justice that is not new- yet seems to be enjoying a feeling of novelty through the broadcasting of injustice, devastation, murder, abuse, and violence in the news and social media. My identity as an educator allows me to practice the active rejection of supremacist culture and commitment to life long learning WITH my students and other young people. My identity as an educated, documented, "white-passing" ciswomxn gives me access into rooms. My blindspots are real. 

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I am a Japanese American multiracial educator. I am wholeheartedly committed to being a co-conspirator and educator. I am struggling to find ways to inspire other adults to take a more active role in this movement for social justice that is not new- yet seems to be enjoying a feeling of novelty through the broadcasting of injustice, devastation, murder, abuse, and violence in the news and social media. My identity as an educator allows me to practice the active rejection of supremacist culture and commitment to life long learning WITH my students and other young people. My identity as an educated, documented, "white-passing" ciswomxn gives me access into rooms. My blindspots are real. 

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I am one of 80% of educators who are white women in a rural school district. I am working to empower students in the classroom by allowing them to direct our content and discourse. Less focus on skills-based assessment and more on developing a critical lens with which to view our community and society at large. Our district and school site prioritizes space for parents/guardians with more access and resources. I have more work to do to speak up in spaces where there is deficit-centered thinking. It's our responsibility to highlight the ways in which our students are geniuses. It has to be a cultural shift within each teacher's practice and within the school and district. (credit to Dr. Gholdy Muhammed's work)

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I am struggling for a true representation of equity within my school site and my district. The space I am in is a site of compliance. Mediocrity is promoted. The word equity is thrown around but hasn't ever truly stuck. I am a second year teacher so I am still learning how to navigate a schoolspace in general. WIth the help of another colleague, we have created a virtual space that meets every 3 weeks to discuss books, articles and current events through an educational lens. My identity as a white woman interweaves with the compliance of this struggle. Most educators in general, but also at my site are white women. However, we are transitioning to becoming a dual immersion Spanish school and I am hoping to change our hiring policies to seek out educators who are native speakers of Spanish and people who claim various intersections.

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I am a white woman that has been working on my anti-racist journey for many years. I am struggling to find like minded people where I live and work. When I speak up at my site and question things that are clearly not equitable or cause harm to some, I feel like I am always shut down. I feel isolated to do what is best for my students within my classroom.

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I am a student of color, often finding myself in classrooms with teachers who don’t look or think like me.