Bending The Arc

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators Dear friends, I’m writing off-schedule because the world continues to astonish me. The distinctly human capacity for violence and cruelty overwhelms me. While we train our eyes on the devastation in Gaza and Israel, I also remind myself that war continues to rage in Ukraine and Sudan, for instance.…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators Hello friends, I hope you are finding your way through the first months of the school year with aplomb. Susprise, no surprise, October is already here but at least where I am it’s not as easy to recognize. The temperatures have been unseasonably warm in Vienna for this time…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators And we’re off… Buckle up, friends, this might be a long one. Of course the beginning of the school year gives us multiple opportunities to think about how we are welcoming students and each other into a new season of learning. Beyond that, we have the luxury of a…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators View this email in your browser Begin Again Hello, friends! If you’re in the northern hemisphere then you are likely preparing for a new school year about now. Many of us are putting the finishing touches on our final days and weeks of summer break, myself included. A mere…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators (even over the break) Greetings, friends! I hope this message finds you managing your stress levels in healthy, nourishing ways. If you are currently on break, may you enjoy ample opportunities to do the things that feel good. In the event that this is not your designated period of…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators “No one should be moving through this world thinking that their lives are not political. Everything about your existence, everything about what you have and don’t have, is political. We’re all being impacted by these restrictive ideas about what it means to be a man or woman, or nonbinary,…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators “If I were a surgeon I would cut first: our blinders, and the disdain for complexity that our narrow vision instills. Even now there are those who look to technology as if we might make something (in isolation) that will fix this (without unintended effects).” – Emily Johnston, Her…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators Recovery. As Spring Break has finally arrived, recovery is the word that is top of mind for me. The imperative of rest follows me from room to room; beckons with blankets, books and hot tea. And still there’s the screen; there are devices holding the threads of so many…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators “Our paths towards advocacy may be personal or professional, or a combination of both. Either way, socially responsible leadership and active citizenship require us to understand ourselves and how we can leverage our privileges and power by taking action. We can say that we care and empathise about issues,…

A Social Justice Newsletter for Educators “But what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another? Or even more to the point, what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but it is also what emerges from how…