Posts tagged #capitalism
Should hard work be rewarded?
Should hard work be rewarded?

For those of you following along at home, NYC public high school decisions came out this week (on Thursday after school). Miraculously and unexpectedly, decisions were released in a relatively thoughtful and orderly fashion although not without various mishaps - I’m just saying, it could have been a lot worse after going through what was for many a harrowing, complex and inequitable application process.

One discussion struck me today though and reminded me that I feel like what is often not taken into account is that some kids work hard and don’t get good grades, and some don’t work hard and do get good grades

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#hardwork, #impact, #schools, #education, #capitalism, #whitesupremacyculture
Invisible work
Invisible work

The topic of invisible work has been coming up a lot lately.

Invisible work has been an undergirding principle of capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy since the beginning of time immemorial - and it is deeply embedded into every aspect of US history and the ongoing legacy of a country founded on slavery, genocide and colonization.

Of course, at the inception of this country, it wasn’t just invisible work, it was the violently coerced labor of chattel slavery without which this country could not have built a viable economy, infrastructure or culture.

That legacy lives on today - we no longer have slavery but we still have invisible work.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#capitalism, #1619project, #whitesupremacyculture
Rethinking what we think of as "disruption"
Rethinking what we think of as "disruption"

What if we could shift the ways in which we have been socialized to think and behave, and adjust to having our kids around not as a disruption but as a re-integration?

An article on "Traditional Indigenous Kinship Practices at Home: Being Child-Centered During the Pandemic" gave me a completely new perspective.

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Dismantling oppressionAlethea Fitzpatrick#onlineschool, #indigenouspractices, #disruption, #capitalism, #DEIinapandemic, #pandemiclife