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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. 93: Letter #3 + Apprenticeship Benefits Jul 31, 2018

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"It’s not on you to prove that homeschooling works." I agree with Julie Bogart for sure...BUT, as much as I would love for all of us to be able to be all, 'Aye, this what I’m doing for and with my family, and if you nuh like it you can gweh!' It’s not always that cut and dry. We can’t always do that, for one main and major reason; today’s letter of support is centered on the people whose reality reflects that one reason. After our letter, you’ll hear a short piece from Romain Sinclair, a brilliant young man who is in month 5 of Praxis, which is a 6-month training based on the premise that the college degree is DEAD, and what young folks need is life experience. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 92: Deschooling DC with Najai Knox Jul 26, 2018

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Support letter #2 is here! Plus, a beautiful sentiment from a new mother, based in PG County with roots in DC. She (Najai Knox) started Deschooling DC as a means to resolve the issues that school causes and perpetuates, particularly for Black children. Listen to Najai's story--her why and what--and email her to encourage our support the movement toward liberated living and learning for DC's most underserved families. Najai is imagining life beyond her city's circumstances, and she isn't waiting for the government, or anyone, to do for her, what she knows that we, as Black folks, know how to do for ourselves. We just need to go back and remember, then come forward and put it into practice. Sankofa!

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Ep. 91: Support Letters, Ralph Angel, and Rhythm Jul 20, 2018

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Letters of support for people raising free people, meaning unschoolers and other folks in Self-Directed Education. Also, we're share our first deschooling sighting courtesy of Moji Yai. Her keen observation of Ralph Angel from Queen Sugar is a simple reminder of the ways schooling can be toxic. Plus, we're bringing up the ways that rhythm plays a vital role in emergent structure.

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Ep. 90: Letters of Support & Countdown to 100 Jul 18, 2018

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This episode tells you what to expect for the next 9 episodes of Fare of the Free Child podcast. Letters of support for various aspects of the raising free people journey, a celebration countdown to episode 100, space for me to finish our book (yes, our book!), and a long-awaiting break in preparation for season 4!

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Ep. 89: Teen Input on Self-Directed Education Training for Adults Jul 15, 2018

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In our efforts to change our parenting and learning practices to reflect our opinions about equity and liberation, we need more than Aha moments. We need resources, training, a sense of community to grow into/with. The Agile Learning Facilitators summer training (#ALFSummer18) is one of the spaces where these resources and training and community-emerging can happen. Hear about this from Marley, our resident teen unschooler who spent a year at an Agile Learning Center (Heartwood ALC), and also got to participate in some of the #ALFSummer18 training. Listen and let us know what rings true for you. #BIPOCinSDE

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Ep. 88: Unschooling Community Voices Jul 06, 2018

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This episode includes some of the experiences of other families exploring Self-Directed Education. From a veteran teacher turned Self-Directed Education advocate, to frustrations with ageism, to fundraisers for love-centered t-shirts, we're talking about the ways people are raising free people.

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Ep. 87: Vulnerability in Pregnancy Jul 04, 2018

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What do you know about black maternal mortality rates? Listen in to get insights on the issues black women face during pregnancy and the birthing process. In Episode 2 of Moji's Wellness Spiral series, her guest, Kimberly Staton, shares her pregnancy and birth experience as a black woman whose weight made her pregnancy high risk and how that experience led to see and shed some cultural ideas about pregnancy and birth, like the myth of "childbearing hips". Also discussed is the lack of quality prenatal health care for black women, the importance of childbirth education and bits of the history of black midwives and birth experience in the United States.

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Ep. 86: Raising the Queer, Black, and Free Jun 27, 2018

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Alicia Lucas and her husband have five children. They used to say they have four daughters and one son, but they’re learning to practice a different narrative. Today, Alicia and her husband tell people they have three daughters, one son, and a child named Roxanne. Roxanne is their 8-year-old, gender-fluid child whose personal pronoun is “They.” Roxanne’s brother is 12 and identifies as bisexual. Together, their family is learning how to use terms and make space for every one of them to be comfortable and confident in being exactly who they are. As they learn how to do this, they’re shifting from conventional homeschooling and over into a more self-directed life. Self-Directed Education is helping them to deschool from ideas of gender roles and norms, and Alicia wants us to remember how this particular shift is tied to the greater issues of freedom, particularly for black families like hers.

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Ep. 85: Surviving Survival Mode (Ep 2) Jun 20, 2018

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In Episode 2 of Monique's self-care, motherhood, and adulting podcast, Surviving Survival Mode, she talks about the feelings that kept her stuck in the very space she wanted to emerge out of. She also shares the "not enough" mindset that showed up, what helped her create a shift and how journaling played a major role in that process toward self-acceptance and learning to tap into that Now What? aspect of her work.

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Ep. 84: Our Deschooling Circle in Tuscon Jun 14, 2018

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In Tuscon, Arizona, there are several families, many of whom are of Mexican descent, are seeing the ways Self-Directed Education supports a mindset of decolonizing education and returning to community and culture. This episode is a recap of an event for BIPOC using unschooling and other forms of self-directed studies to liberate themselves from oppressive systems. The event was organized by Lane Santa Cruz along with Traci, Yvonne, Jim, and other members of Tuscon's conscious parenting community. #BIPOCinSDE

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