madeline lane-mckinley

... why did the New School president last month turn down $4mill+ from trustees & donors to fund PhDs and stop the 'pause' if this is just about money? admin has made clear, they want to reshape The New School and kill its progressive, critical thought legacy

I want this too but I would also be so worried for those 2 year olds

“Clearly people did it for a long time” 🫣

This is incredibly beautiful. Thanks so much for engaging with my book, and for writing this.

"...without the utopian horizon, the hierarchical power dynamics of our current existence, rightly condemned as abusive and coercive, are accepted as fixed and ineradicable."

wrote about @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s new book and the necessity of full personhood for children, who should receive both support and have agency in ways that even liberal society seeks to deny (and that the christian nationalist project is explicit about trying to control)

For fans of Ms. Rachel: Solidarity with Children Perfect Victims We Grow the World Together How to End Family Policing Prisons Must Fall

What to get for fans of Ms. Rachel

Taking my kid to the high school info night for incoming freshmen, please send me strength (hoping not to cry).

This Watery Place - Pluto Press A striking political and literary meditation on the sensory experience and politics of conception, pregnancy and neonatal care

My report from the gestational sensorium is 11$ right now (all Pluto books are 50% off)
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A mom in Portland has been separated from her child since June bc ICE kidnapped her. The only thing standing between her & her baby right now is a $7,500 bond. There's 5k to go. PLEASE let's do this. Many hands make light work. This is literally the reason for the gd mfing season gofund.me/3e980d9d3

All very relatable. But that grappling is part of sharing everyday life with and caring for kids—which puts you ahead of many who speak for/write about/act as representatives of children. (Also hope you enjoy the book!)

The more we develop this political discourse, the more it will be necessary to hold those who speak for kids accountable to listening to kids and helping to care for them. Otherwise wtf are you doing.

I’ve found it incredibly disturbing, throughout writing my book, to encounter this problem over and over again.

Among leftists & fascists alike, children are often reduced to a mere idea. There are plenty who speak on behalf of children without building solidarity with actual children. Even with the most liberationist intentions, this is rooted in adult supremacy. It has to start with kids.

Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley

I haven’t read it yet so I don’t want to misspeak but in my heart of hearts I feel and suspect this is the book everyone should be reading instead of Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”

After ICE took students’ parents, these teachers began rising at dawn to keep watch: ‘We said, hell no’ With students terrified and arrests rising, educators in San Diego are scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safe

“We said: Hell no”

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Am as invested in these inclusions as I am in the exclusions of American Psycho, Requiem and Castaway

You Can Count on Me, Cecil B Demented, Billy Elliott 🤞

Solidarity with Children

My book is currently 40% off

Could be a great gift for:

your favorite parents, caretakers, teachers, childcare workers

rad teenagers & young people

estranged family members

local youth-centered projects

childhood friends

yourself

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I’d even send some material to support you. But I wonder if anyone would admit it worked.

If you did a bunch of wild and provocational stuff on here, paired with some imagery, and posted that consistently between 10-2 every night for 6-8 weeks, I think around a dozen or more people would have dreams in which you at least briefly appear. I think you should start today.

Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta: My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero

My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview With Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/my_father_is_a_a_warrior

December 5 at the Wooden Shoe, showtime 6 and conversation at 7:30. Masks required!

There’s also this amazing film series being organized in Philly, dedicated to the films analyzed in the book, starting with my favorite, Bambule 🔥

Solidarity with Children

Wonderful to hear about reading groups on Solidarity with Children forming in different places & especially those focused on reading it with young people! Please let me know if there’s any way you need support in these efforts—this is exactly why I wrote it 💜

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Book cover of SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN An Essay Against Adult Supremacy Madeline Lane-McKinley

I’ve never downloaded a book so fast + @haymarketbooks.org is having a 60% off sale until Nov 21!

There’s a huge pressure to stop these individual themed courses in UC. We’ve been told they make us look like amateur researchers rather than specialists. Stopped doing this in our WP last year in fear of budget cuts.

Largely but tell someone in a UC WP they’re doing “comp/rhet” and you may catch some serious shade. I’ve been doing this for a very long time and still don’t really understand it. Either way we’re “service departments” of 75-90% adjuncts.

Not to jump on with more exceptions but does seem noteworthy that the UC system, largest public university system in US, has WPs.

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Just ordered 2 copies of @lalouverouge.bsky.social’s SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN (one for me, one for a friend, obvs) and so can you — except you, said friend, who is on here, I’ve got you covered