“Pretty comfortable with where we’re at”
30 students at Lincoln Parish Schools tested positive for Covid-19 in 4 school days. The superintendent says we’re pretty comfortable with where we’re at.
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Author; Joi Chadwick
I got blocked by a Louisiana state senator
It’s not just Senator Jackson blocking people who disagree with her on policy on Twitter. The current systems block us historically, presently, and continually.
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Three days of civic engagement in Lincoln Parish (or “I love the library”)
This weekend I wrote an advocacy letter, voted to fund the library, went to a “focus group” and read a children’s book.
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Yes, Mike Milstead, racism is systemic in Lincoln Parish and the Lincoln Parish schools [updated with Superintendent vote 10/23/2020]
Lincoln Parish Schools superintendent Mike Milstead doesn’t think systemic racism exists in Lincoln Parish or its schools. Facts say otherwise.
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Resources to help kids learn and talk about injustice, race, white supremacy, and liberation (last updated 6/5/2020)
Kids are never too young to see or talk about race, injustice, and freedom. Here are some resources to help them.
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Uprisings, police abolition, anti-racism, and transformative justice: References after a Facebook Live (last updated 7/6/2020)
Mostly free to download, watch, or access references on policing, police abolition, transformative justice, and uprisings in America.
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Talking about cutting social welfare at a birthday dinner
This sounded like many a Facebook discussion to me. “Why should I pay for this? Bootstraps, amirite!?” But it’s my ethical responsibility to advocate, so here’s my answer.
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Congressional Analysis: SMARTWATCH Data Act and Beyond the Box for Education Act
Here’s what I wrote on Bill Cassidy and Jacky Rosen’s SMARTWATCH Data Act and Cedric Richmond’s Beyond the Box for Education Act of 2019.
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‘Cancel culture’ is in the title, so will it even make sense?
AKA “I don’t think ‘cancel culture’ means what you think it means, and you might want to love it.”
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Louisiana corrections industry is profiting from ICE contracts while asylum seeker dies
We have a duty to reclaim humanity so fiercely that we don’t find joy in ICE, prisons, or prison contracts and no more Roylan Hernandez Diaz’s are detained or erased.
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