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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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Ep. 73: How Grief Deschooled Her Apr 04, 2018

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When Louvenia Wilkerson became a widow at 40 years old, grief and motherhood intersected in deeply difficult ways. The mother of three began a journey that caused her to question everything. Those questions led her to take her big pause from homeschooling, from entrepreneurship, and everything she identified with, including religion. Five years later, Lou and her children have happily transitioned into unschooling and taking a slow, steady approach to managing grief. With plans to own an RV and travel as an unschooling and road schooling family, life is looking good for Lou and her tribe.

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Ep 72: Series Trailers and Trust Issues Mar 28, 2018

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Listen to clips from three upcoming Raising Free People Network podcast series, and then let's talk about trust issues in our relationships with children and ourselves. All of this is part of an ongoing movement toward normalized liberation for black people and for people of color the world over, who commit to forming community around raising free people. The series will be hosted by Daritcia in Puerto Rico, Monique Allison in Atlanta (Surviving Survival Mode), and Val Dee in Atlanta (The Other Side of MidLife). All details are on the show notes page: www.akilahsrichards.com/72

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Ep 71: Raising Free People Network Vibes Mar 22, 2018

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This week I'm sharing my plans to expand the Fare of the Free Child unschooling podcast community! I'll be producing a set of short-run series (podcasts that have a small, set number of episodes), and co-facilitating some Self-Directed Education training, and you should be part of that mix. I'll tell you how to get involved in those projects, and you'll meet Anjel Berry, a mother of five daughters, and a co-organizer for Imagimatics, a maker-space project for outside the city limits of Atlanta. So much goodness in this episode; the show notes page is lit!!

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Ep. 70: Yoga For Healing While Mothering Mar 13, 2018

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Self-care in Black motherhood looks different than it would for other mothers. Charlotte-based yogi, Kelley Carboni-Woods, aka Peace Filled Mama, is an entrepreneur, hair stylist, and yoga teacher who believes in using yoga as a means of claiming freedom and healing from trauma. Kelley is clear that the freedom of her two sons depends, in part, on her ability to heal. Referencing the daily systemic threats and triggers to Black life and Black joy, Kelley's work is fueled by the need for healing, so that she doesn't pass on what generations of trauma have already cost our people, to her sons.

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Ep. 69: The Community Supported Education Model Mar 08, 2018

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Free SDE Tuition? Making Self-Directed Education more accessible? Yes! But don't let the word free fool you. There is a major investment and potentially huge payoff to this particular solution to making SDE more accessible. Atiba Nicholas and Dr. Scott Speed founded Grow, a self-directed community for families to partner with their children for life and learning opportunities. Based in East Point, Georgia, the two education activists aim to push back against the idea of the Education Industrial Complex by combining their learning center, parents, and businesses within the community. They support unschoolers and other self-directed learning models.

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Ep. 68: The Social Impact of Self-Directed Education Mar 07, 2018

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Trudi Lebron is the first to tell you she's an excellent student. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. and that level of commitment didn't start in adulthood. In fact it started in her humble beginnings as a high-school dropout who had two sons by the time she was 17.Trudi felt that the world had given up on her, but she was sure that her sons deserved a mother who was happy and fulfilled, and she set out to be just that. Today she is a Connecticut-based business coach, social impact entrepreneur, and mother of three boys. She and her fiancé recently decided that Kennedy, their 9-year-old, no longer had to endure schooling. As a recent unschooler, Kennedy was asked how it felt to be out of school. He said it felt like "being free." Listen as Trudi talks about how community and courage helped her get free, and how she uses social impact leadership work to help others get free, too.

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Ep. 67: The Liberation & Education Summit Mar 01, 2018

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Atlanta parents, educators, and caregivers gathered in Clarkston for the first Liberation and Education Summit on February 3 of this year. Unschoolers, homeschoolers, and various families and individuals in self-directed and alternative education convened to discuss the ways social justice is, and can be even more deliberately, part of our movement toward raising happy, conscious, well-quipped people. Here's a recap that's comprised mostly of clips from the panel discussion portion of the summit. The break-out sessions weren't recorded in full (partially to protect sensitive topics that often come out in smaller groups), but you'll get a good feel for what was discussed during the event. Special thanks to Heartwood Agile Learning Center's directors, board, and family of volunteers for hosting an encouraging, inspiring space to build community around Self-Directed Education.

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Ep. 66: Black Panther Movie's Unschooling Gems Feb 20, 2018

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Wakanda--the country where a brilliant young girl runs the country's technology, a young, newly-made king decides that some aspects of his culture and tradition are ready for change, and gender equity is fully recognized; Wakanda is clearly the place to be! In this episode I'll share some of my favorite unschooling moments, and some of Atlanta's most excited Black Panther movie fans will tell you why they're all "Wakanda Forever" up in here!

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Ep. 65: Deschooling Through Black Minimalism Feb 13, 2018

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Yolanda V. Acree is the founder of Black Minimalists and believer in Black liberation. She is part of a growing group of People of Color who choose to live simply, and to own their freedom by breaking out of standard, oppressive ideas and lifestyles. Yolanda is a digital nomad currently living in Mexico, and growing her tribe of liberation-minded people. The Black minimalism movement welcomes all People of Color living out their freedom through location independence, frugal or debt-free focused living, and other unconventional, freedom-centered practices.

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Ep. 64: Deschooling Through Detoxing Feb 07, 2018

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New Jersey-based entrepreneur, Kim Hester and her husband Jamal, decided that Self-Directed Education is the best way for them to give their daughter, SaHura, a shot at confident autonomy. They're new to unschooling, but not to deschooling, because they've been helping their community deschool their relationships with food and their bodies.

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