Katy Swalwell

On behalf of The Critical Social Educator’s publishing collective, I’m excited to share the journal’s newest issue on “Teaching Truth” guest edited by Drs. Ryan Oto, Natasha Murray Everett, and Sara Armstrong Demoiny!

www.tcsejournal.com/issues/vol-3...

🔥 Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social for exposing at a national level what we are fighting against in Iowa. What is happening here CANNOT become the national model. www.instagram.com/reel/DFyFVrA...

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YouTube video by KTVB West Ada issues sports analogy response to 'everyone is welcome here' poster removal order

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPsK...

A West Ada teacher was asked to remove signs promoting inclusivity. Controversy ensued. The debacle has garnered national attention and sparked an outpouring of support for the middle school teacher.

www.idahoednews.org/top-news/a-w...

Social Studies for a Better World: A Guide for Elementary Educators Giving young people opportunities to grapple with injustices and complex social problems can inspire them to build a better world. In this bestselling book, two experienced social studies educators la...

… interviewed in the 2nd edition of Social Studies for A Better World who also refused to comply with authoritarian orders and have no regrets. www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

YouTube video by KTVB Students stand in solidarity for teacher told to remove 'everyone is welcome here' poster

The fact that refusing to take down an “everyone is welcome” sign is an act of courageous resistance but it is. Payout out to West Ada, Idaho 6th grade teacher Sarah Inama and the students who rallied to support her. And to the other teachers @nrdz.bsky.social and I … m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...

This administration doesn’t like “malicious compliance” … just maliciousness.

Social Studies for a Better World: A Guide for Elementary Educators Giving young people opportunities to grapple with injustices and complex social problems can inspire them to build a better world. In this bestselling book, two experienced social studies educators la...

Pre-order the 2nd edition of Social Studies for A Better World then DM me your receipt (with CC info redacted!) and Noreen and I will enter you in a book bundle giveaway! www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

Join us for the 5th Annual Central Iowa Trans Lives Festival on March 29, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility with art, food, live performances, and more. Free admission and parking. Hosted by First Unitarian Church of Des Moines. More info at ucdsm.org.

so now we all have to suffer not just the loss of vaccines but the drain of medical professionals away from a state that is backpedaling so hard and fast away from progress it's giving me whiplash.

STOP. IMPOSING. YOUR. IGNORANCE. ON. EVERYONE. ELSE.

Not sure how punishing doctors for using their tools to save lives and prevent pandemics is in any way promoting public health ... but apparently someone emailed a state senator about how she thinks an mRNA vaccine injured her ...

Another gem of a bill this session proposes to criminalize people who administer mRNA vaccines. That sounds like it couldn't possibly be true, but it is. SF360 passed out of the Health & Human Services subcommittee on Monday. www.iowapublicradio.org/state-govern...

Want to help identify closed, closing, and at risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, or services in the us? Visit the form in the description of this image or in our profile to enter information about a center/program you know has closed or may close. https://bit.ly/DEIAclose

This project is to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections. 
https://bit.ly/DEIAclose

No victory is ever final, but neither is any defeat.

I’m sick with grief … I’m worried about loved ones targeted by this and other xenophobic, racist laws who will likely leave and worried even more about them if they stay … I’m furious and disgusted and sad. I’m also resolved and grateful for being in community today with so many others who care.

Stay tuned for updates TikTok video by Iowa Starting Line

Iowa just fast-tracked the removal of gender identity from civil rights. It’s the first state in the nation to do so and I know these legislators aren’t done. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2uBodUa/

To disrupt dominant, hegemonic, settler-colonial cultural norms, we need pedagogies that forward love, compassion, empathy, and a new conceptualizing of culture as alive and constantly in construction." —Timothy San Pedro (2018) 💗

It requires a pedagogy that helps students see how Whiteness operates as a race and opens up conversations about the systemic racism in the United States. ...

It may mean seeing the humanity in those who
have long dehumanized us by easing others’ eyes while adjusting to a new reality inclusive of a more complete story of us. ...

scream for the lights to be turned back off. [Culturally sustaining pedagogy] requires that we acknowledge this process as painful, and as necessary, to see that our
liberation is tied together. ...

"By centering stories often held in the margins...norms that were once unseen are now made visible. For some, this process is painful—like flipping on the lights in a pitch-dark room. Some may cower, shield themselves from the light, close their eyes tightly, ...

YouTube video by Untold History The Blowouts

Historical amnesia fuels authoritarianism. People not knowing the history of equity work in schools makes it easier to attack. We also miss out inspiration for our own activism. The 1968 Blowouts in LA and the birth of ethnic studies matters now more than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrs...

One Iowa has a template to use when you contact your representatives. oneiowaaction.org/iowacivilrig... Please send it in and spread the word.

The Iowa Civil Rights Removal Act (HSB242 legiscan.com/IA/bill/HSB2...) is a breathtakingly cruel piece of proposed legislation that removes transgender Iowans’ civil rights protections, adds restroom and birth certificate restrictions, and redefines sex to erase trans people. Contact reps NOW.

@nrdz.bsky.social and I are so proud of this "timely second edition" of Social Studies for A Better World. Pre-order your copy today and tag us in a picture of your receipt to be entered into a drawing for one of these powerful book bundles: www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

It's refreshing to witness the refusal to comply—especially when existing law backs it up! Institutions do not have to cower and scurry to ask how high when Trump says "jump." We can say NO.