Maggie Beneke

Good on them.

We need more bike libraries that include all types of bikes for all ages and abilities.

In chapter 12 ‪@drbllingslp.bsky.social‬ & Xigrid Soto-Boykin provide a snapshot of their critical praxis, offering examples from their work in speech-language pathology to critically question what counts as “good” languaging.

In chapter 11 Lilly Padía & Christasany Turner discuss how early childhood teacher education praxis might be rooted in Black feminist thought and Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit). 🤩

Then Hailey Love & I use perspectives from disability justice & abolition to expose our own compliance with early childhood pedagogical “scripts,” and imagine beyond these scripts in our roles as early childhood teacher educators (chapter 10).

In chapter 9 Rae Begaye-Tewa, Elizabeth Ruiz, & Nicole Begay offer a a conceptual framework rooted in Indigenous storywork and knowledges, elevating families’ perspectives about inclusive early childhood education. 🙌🏻✨

In chapter 8 Jie Park highlights how Latina mothers created a pedagogy of relationality and& interdependence for their children with disabilities as they navigated remote education during COVID-19. 🥰

Then in chapter 7 Christine Hancock & Chelsea Morgan present discursive strategies that families of infants and toddlers use to enact resistance during decision-making with Early Head Start home visitors.

In chapter 6 Ame Christiansen shows how pedagogical narration within an Australian nature-based preschool can make visible how children with disabilities engage in relational ways of knowing and being. 🌱

In chapter 5, ‪@katiekat.bsky.social‬ Rosie Tuffour-Mercedat, Elizabeth Barcay, Brianna Doherty, A.R. Shearer, & Jasmin Stoffer discuss ways of resisting the pervasive erasure of disability identity and history in early childhood curricula. 🔥

In chapter 4 Devanshi Unadkat & 3rd grade teacher Carrie Cuenca illustrate how they resisted standardized literacy approaches and supported a neurodiverse child, Kit, to position himself as “creative” and belonging in the classroom.

In chapter 3, Bárbara Baptista de Oliveira & Ana Luisa Gediel present a case study of a Deaf, Autistic child in Brazil, highlighting her “escape routes” as resistance to discipline, body control, and the pursuit of standardization.

In chapter 2, Nickie Coomer, William Proffitt, Colleen Campbell, & Teukie Martin center young children who have been labeled as experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties; they explore the ways children, themselves, narrate their experiences.

In chapter 1, @acboyce.bsky.social and Malcom King critique how educational reforms aimed at addressing young children’s socio-emotional learning carry eugenics ideologies forward. IT IS SO GOOD 🔥

The volume showcases how critical perspectives on disability can inform our work with children, families, and teachers in early childhood settings. We argue that a focus on disability and ableism in early childhood is necessary for cultivating freedom and belonging.

I'm not on here much but grateful and excited to share this co-edited volume that represents ongoing collaborations with Dr. Hailey Love, includes a forward from the brilliant @trantempleton.bsky.social, and features so many brilliant contributors...

I learned a few days ago that a group of 2nd graders in my city spent several weeks creating an abolitionist city as part of their visual arts class. I was so happy to hear this and I have invited the class to exhibit their work. They will be joining in the Abolitionist Toyery on August 10.

Book cover - text is Beyond Compliance in Early Childhood Education. Illustration includes a young child in a dress holding a pink balloon.

Beyond Compliance in Early Childhood Education: Centering Disability, Freedom, and Belonging—co-edited by @maggiebeneke.bsky.social & Dr. Hailey Love—is now out from @tcpress.bsky.social. Includes a chapter by Beneke’s advisees April Coloma Boyce & Malcom King. 🔗 www.tcpress.com/beyond-compl...

Thank you!

This energy right here.

Feminism Against the Carceral State - Emily L. Thuma - Inquest Seventies-era anti-carceral feminism opposed “tough on crime” policymaking and played an important role in the making of today’s prison abolition movement.

In the 70s & 80s, feminists connected violence against women to a critique of state violence. Emily Thuma @haymarketbooks.org traces how this anti-carceral feminism got hijacked by tough-on-crime lawmakers—then revived in the modern prison abolition movement.

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

We will all be subject to the conditions of collective resistance or collective surrender that we establish now as conditions deteriorate.

To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road.

I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.

Heart filled from #protectTransYouth March - led by young people filled with joy and love and creativity and hope! @jfrejnyc.bsky.social

Graphic with a light pink background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 1/7/25, $2.16 million CAD raised ($1.50 US) 18,434 eSims purchased and sent, 4316 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code

🍉 Please help us continue to keep the thousands of eSIMs we bought active so Gazans can connect with the outside world

For more: chuffed.org/project/crip...

YouTube video by Erin In The Morning Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 Republicans, trans bills die in Montana

Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 GOPs, trans bills die in Montana

Trans people have been scapegoated so effectively (among older people) that we're flooded with models of how to hate.

But when people hear the love behind why we stand up for each other, we win.

Bravo, @zoandbehold.bsky.social!

When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.

Education Solidarity Collective - statement only To add your name, go to this Google form. Education Solidarity Collective On Coast Salish Lands We are living, teaching, and learning under a U.S. administrative regime that seeks to forcibly isola...

Sharing this statement from the Education Solidarity Collective on Coast Salish Lands which reaffirms our commitments to one another, the land, and working towards more just futures. A possible model for those not on these lands & an invitation to those with us here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...