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Fare of the Free Child

Fare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-directed, decolonized living and learning. Each weekly episode examines a particular way that we’ve accepted coercive, emotionally and physically damaging habits as a normal part of adult-child relationships. With a focus on deschooling one’s self, decolonizing education, and exploring radical self-expression, this podcast challenges and informs us to walk toward a model for living with children that believes in trusting and respecting children and ourselves. #fofcpod #raisingfreepeople

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Latest Episodes:

Ep. 111: Parent Founders Medley Mar 28, 2019

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In this final episode of the Parent Founder series, Nuola speaks about play, color, and self-expression via Jean-Michel Basquiat, also known as Radiant Child, and picking resources based on children's interests. Dr. Sundiata speaks about his journey to forming GROW, including college Aha moments, entrepreneurial trials and errors, and the gratitude he has toward supportive people and his organic learning process. You’ll also hear from Sara, an SDE-minded mama who attendee of the AEROx Virtual Conference. Sara was introduced to AERO and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education by the Fare of the Free Child community, and has been able to extend her knowledge of SDE, and see how it provides children with strength, autonomy, and purpose. We close out with Binah, who, along with her friend Noelle, speak on how being in a homeschooling group for young children who often aren't included in the tween/teen-centric spaces of D.C. has helped them be aware of the work it takes to learn as a family. So much goodness and specificity in this episode! #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 110: Leslie talks Conscious Community Collectives Mar 21, 2019

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This week's episode in the Parent Founder series features the “wise old woman” voice of Leslie Bray. Leslie is the space-holder for Kid Cultivators, a homeschooling collective that makes space for other learning styles, such as unschooling. She'll speak about how to start a learning group that fulfills emotional and educational desires while still prioritizing partnership-centred and trust-based parenting. She also stresses the importance of centering oneself, allowing for grace in the face of transition, and other hella-necessary gems for folks looking to build what they need for their children and themselves. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 109: Yolande on the Black, Queer, Feminist Approach to SDE Mar 13, 2019

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This week’s episode in the Parent Founders series features the voice and experiences of Yolande Tomlinson. She co-founded Anna Julia Cooper Learning and Liberation Center (AJC), “a cooperative, learner-centered, and self-directed community, rooted in a radical Black queer feminist politic, and a multi-generational, decolonized community of care, healing, and intellectual exploration where learning opportunities abound.” Yolande has two beautiful daughters who inspire a lot of her work and her shifting. She’s gonna share with us today the backstory and a bit of the logistics around co-founding this Self-Directed Education space in Atlanta. #BIPOC

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Ep. 108: Sonia Starts a Sudbury Mar 08, 2019

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This week, as part of a series on parent founders of Self-Directed Education spaces, you’ll share in one woman’s journey. Sonia Fernandez Leblanc, a White woman who was born and raised in Dominican Republic, and her husband—a Black man from Puerto Rico (who was raised in St. Croix and in Dominica where his family is from)—are raising two brown girls in the American South, and wants to be part of the change in relationships among people in the world by raising more self-aware, socially just, liberation-minded children. Sonia will tell you how she ended up creating community, joining efforts with her community, and finding, then founding, the Sudbury approach that met her community’s needs. Her Baltimore beginnings, her dismay around education, moments of jealousy and plenty of joy, all of it, straight from Sonia, founder of Nashville Sudbury School in Tennessee, US. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 107 : Soweto, Abantu, Mothering & More Feb 28, 2019

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This week, I feature the voice and sentiment of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the writer, storyteller, feminist mama who inspired our travels to Soweto from Johannesburg last December. We went for a Black authors’ book festival, but this isn’t a recap of Abantu. Thanks to Chimamanda, Soweto, and Abantu, I can share this example of partnership-centered parenting. This is an example of what the work of raising free people can look like in a moment, when we as adults get to choose trusting a child over controlling them. I have li'l snippets from just crowd sounds and good shit from Abantu, but mostly, this is just me telling you what happened with Marley and me that day. This is me telling you a bit about choosing to live in alignment with what you believe, and recognizing how that choice begins to arrange your entire freaking life in ways that offer you opportunities to move into deep work in the world and in our own self. In your household. In your relationships, in your politics, in your purpose. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 106 Racial Equity in SDE (Liberation and Education Summit Panel Chat) Feb 21, 2019

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This episode, we're recapping the Liberation and Education Summit that happened this month in metro Atlanta (Clarkston) Georgia. Maleka Diggs, Tamika Middleton, and Patty Zavala all discussed aspects of racial equity in Self-Directed Education. The panel was moderated by Kelly Henderson, Ph.D., and the related conversations during the conference were co-facilitated by the staff of the summit producers and hosts, Heartwood Agile Learning Center, whose founders spoke with us on FOFC about solutions to pervasive whiteness (aka white supremacy) in Self-Directed Education. You’ll hear the full panel discussion about race, equity, and personal realizations that stem from the decision to self-direct and to allow that each of their children. You will also hear from Dr. Ta-Tanisha Randall, an attendee of the summit, and a passionate SDE advocate in her own right. I’ll also tell you where in America you’ll find me hosting or inciting the types of conversations that happened at the summit, including Philly, New York, Charlotte, and a few other cities.

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Ep. 105 Love, Trust, Identity Feb 14, 2019

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Love, Trust, Identity – that’s the flow of the conversation Kelly Henderson will guide us on for the duration of this episode. She is a college professor, and an unschooling mama of five children. She is brilliant and funny and hella focused on Black Love, and I’m talking beyond romantic love. I’m talking love that liberates individuals and communities. Love that reshapes classrooms and class structures. Love that creates worlds and relationships rooted in levels of trust and love that we cannot even begin to imagine. Well, let’s begin imagining today…Kelly will get us started. Here are some of the best bits from a lovely, liberation-minded conversation between she and I. Here’s to Black Love and liberation! #BIPOCinSDE

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Spirituality in Parenting Feb 07, 2019

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Let’s have a conversation about spirituality in parenting. So much of what we do and affirm and get validated by is schoolish in nature, and toxic for us. It’s a prove it, show your work, impress someone in authority, push past this, show up like this, be normal in this way, and be exceptional in this way—lot’s of external stimuli motivated by outside ideas of what one should be, how to perform, how to be labeled as worthy, whether people agree with our dreams and goals, etc. On this episode, Nuola, Moji, Shauntae, Diauni, and I talk about a few of the ways we approach spirituality and connectedness, and I want you to listen good. Don’t just listen; listen good. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 103 My Education, My Liberation (Johannesburg) Jan 31, 2019

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'A conversation on the freedom of education through the lenses of Self-Directed Education, what freedom in education looks like, and how we can create liberatory practices in ourselves and our communities.”

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Ep. 102: Raising Free People, Raising Aware People Jan 23, 2019

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"We need to have a conversation about developing a set of tools and a solidarity around raising free people who are also aware people. This is vital especially since we’re not using tools of oppression in attempts force our children into an awareness of our deeply unjust society. We need to normalize the conversation and safe space-making in takes to explore this, and this is one effort in that direction. We’re not raising children in a bubble, so the conversation and tools are an inevitably necessary part of the journey to raising free and aware people. Raising free aware people is how we work toward dismantling oppressive systems – systems that they will inevitably face and be oppressed by, or systems they will face and benefit from while oppressing others. It’s a cycle that we need to break, and it will not happen if we are not deliberate and clear about our intentions. Raising free, aware people isn’t a mere conversation topic, it is a responsibility we have in endeavoring to help transform our world." - Zakiyya Ismail, growingminds.co.za

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