eve l ewing
intro’d to her a while back via twitter.. wikipedia brown
adding page specifically because of her comment here at 23 min
6&7 yr old children involved in robbing people w guns.. some people.. figure out who these kids are.. punish/control them.. when i hear that story.. that’s child abuse to me.. i say.. what is happening in that child’s life.. who is not caring for them.. how have we failed them.. horrifying to think what led up to that moment
what are the conditions that lead to people leading up to these situations..
let’s try living.. a nother way
ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…].. a nother way
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electric arches
notes/quotes:
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i wanted a map not to know where things are but to know where i am
thursday morning newbury street:
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these are not the kinds of questions you can ask so i probably will never know
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i smile and say hello because the room is small and anyway aren’t we supposed to make this as normal as possible.. or, ma’am, would you like me to help your child feel uncomfortable behind here? .. there is never enough time to read the social cues before acting..
i think that maybe if we can guard ourselves and each other, if we can keep from losing our minds alone in quiet rooms and can alt least lose them side by side, we may live thru the year
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montage in a car:
oh my
fullerton ave:
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you could see every place my brother had been, if you knew where to look , i loved seeing the name he chose for himself and scrawled for himself all along the way , because each felt like a silent hello hello, hello.
the things that went on then:
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tell muse of the siren that called their joy sparse and their love vacant.. tell of the wind that scattered them
untitle anti elegy:
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i never let myself think about.. i don’t want to speak that
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find/follow Eve:
writer, sociologist of race & education, a hundred other things. author of
#ElectricArches from@haymarketbooks. black girl thriving.
Eve Ewing is an American scholar, writer and visual artist from Chicago. She is a sociologist of education, with research focused on school closures, at the University of Chicago and an editor at Seven Scribes. She is the author of Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, forthcoming September 2017).
Ewing grew up in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. She attended Chicago public schools, then the University of Chicago for college. She earned an MAT in Elementary Education from Dominican University and an M.Ed in Education Policy and Management (2013), then a doctorate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education (2016).
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be you. 