Why I had to unlearn my own education
The Liberatory Reconnection Collective Dear Reader, When I was a young twenty-something, freshly graduated from UCLA, I thought I had life figured out (lol). With a degree in hand and a head full of theory, I was confident that I had the tools to teach at a small alternative high school tucked in the Rocky Mountains. That teaching fellowship quickly became one of the most humbling experiences of my life. Paulo Freire didn’t prepare me for what to do or say when students were triggered or…