Stories that hold trauma: Considering when/how to tell children
by Sachi Feris I must have been around sixteen because my grandmother, Mary, died a few months after my seventeenth birthday. She was sitting at the far, right corner of the dining table, where my mom usually sat. More often,…
Writing for your children: Storytelling to support racial identity development
by Sachi Feris I hung on to my high school copy of “We Are the Stories We Tell” for years. From my earliest memories, the question, “Who Am I?” called to me, beginning a life-long process of considering my identity…
What Does Thanksgiving Celebrate?; Exploring Honest History About Thanksgiving with Young Children
by Grace Aldrich and Emma Redden The dialogue below is a rough transcription of an episode from the podcast Freedom Means by Grace Aldrich and Emma Redden, creators of The Full Story School, a community education project focused on collaborating…
In Honor of Critical Race Theory and Derrick Bell
The willful misunderstanding and skewing of Critical Race Theory in recent news has saddened and angered me. Without Critical Race Theory, there would be no Raising Race Conscious Children. I was in college when a short story, “The Space Traders,”…
“Now that Biden is President…are there still going to be jails?”
by Sachi Feris As I often share in Raising Race Conscious Children’s workshops, when my son was in preschool, he often came home playing ‘jail’ and building jails out of manipulatives (blocks, magnatiles, etc). I was not a fan of…