Pass the mashed potatoes (why no one in my family wants to sit next to me at dinner & other musings)

No one wants to sit next to me at family dinner because they’re afraid I will bring up the fact that America is a myth. But it is. Let me tell you why. First, I should clarify that at our Boricua dinner, we won’t have mashed potatoes, but pernil con arroz y habichuelas. Maduros and […]

white supremacy lives in my body…and yours

“White supremacy defines our current reality. It is not merely a belief that to be white is to be better. It is a political, cultural, and economic system premised on the subjugation of people who are not white. That subjugation takes on an infinite number of forms and is enforced with varying degrees of physical […]

Can you keep your activism off my LinkedIn? No, ma’am, I cannot.

Can you keep your activism off my LinkedIn? No, ma’am, I cannot. I am the same person on LinkedIn as I am on Facebook, IG, Twitter, & Threads. I work in a field where we don’t separate out emotions or injustices from “workspaces” or “networking sites.” The very nature of my work is emotional in […]

My notes on 10.16.2023

We are witnessing genocide. The Palestinian people are in an untenable situation beyond their control to evacuate their homes to land where the only certainty is danger, lack of food, water and medical support, and in many cases death. If they remain in their homes in Gaza, they will soon find themselves confronted with a […]

Dear white people: Let’s not continue to be our ancestors

Dear white family and friends, fellow white people I don’t know, white-identified people, and non-Black people in general, receive this in the spirit with which it is offered. I want to help you navigate the moment we are in. Let’s accept and acknowledge that the fires we see burning now should be emblems of our […]

Racism’s hold on my newborn child

At the end of last year, I gave birth to my first baby. V is smart, happy, + beautiful. The future for V is beaming with possibilities + will most definitely be filled with the love of parents, grandparents, family, + friends. In addition to all of this, racism has a hold on my newborn […]

Critically Conscious Educators Rising Meets Imperialist Nostalgia

[The author of this article is a third year NYU Gallatin student, Alex Boone, who interns for the NYU Metro Center’s Center for Strategic Solutions. Her individualized studies concentrate on the traumatic pathology of whiteness in educational institutions, and the effect it has on youth identity development. She writes to her audience from the perspective […]

My commitment to #DecolonizeEd: Conference remarks by NYU CSS Director, Natalie McCabe Zwerger

Decolonizing Education. It brought you here today. It prompted you to wake up early on a Saturday when you have other commitments and obligations. It will prompt you to engage with other educators today on why and how we must shift the way we teach, think, and act with even our youngest babies. Decolonizing Education […]

Conversation with parent advocates on school integration

On June 30th, 2017, Natalie Zwerger, the Director of the NYU Center for Strategic Solutions, sat down with 3 parent advocates and activists to explore the complexities of school integration. Barbara Gross is a Principal Associate for Community Organizing and Engagement with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. She is a White woman and mother. […]

Dear white folks, how will we march on?

On Saturday, January 28th, 2017, Shaun King, writer and civil rights activist, wrote this on Facebook, “Today has been, without a doubt, one of the most despicably inhumane days in my lifetime as an American citizen. Grievously inhumane. This day will go down in history as a deeply unethical, unnecessary, unconstitutional day of pain and […]

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