“How do they see the work? Do they actually see the commitment? Because we feel like the commitment is being made, but do they feel the commitment?” “It behooves us to really ask ourselves if the work that we’re trying to do is penetrating to the lives, and the people, and the communities that we say we want to invest in,” Love said. Love answered questions from abolitionist frameworks and the communities we serve to wellness and self-care. The event’s question and answer segment was moderated by Kavita Matkso, (MS97), associate dean for teacher education for SESP's Master's of Science in Education Program and Golden Apple Award winner Corey Winchester (BS10), a history teacher at Evanston Township High School, who is currently pursuing his doctorate in learning sciences at SESP. When we don’t educate Black and Brown and Indigenous children to their full humanity, to who they are, to their highest potential – then we lose as a society.” When this happens, “you will see more police in schools, you will have low expectations, and you will have discriminatory school funding policies. It comes from a joy, a love, creativity, and ingenuity.”īlackness is too often framed as a problem in educational systems, Love said. I would argue that if all you know about Black folx is our pain and our trauma, you can’t do social justice work – because our history does not start with this pain and we do not fight and find our way out of it because of that pain and trauma. “But if all you know about Black folx is our pain and our trauma, you don’t know us. “So much right now around anti-racism and social justice work is around what happened this summer, and we should be talking about what happened this summer and what keeps happening every day,” Love said. The conversation with Love moved between the past and the present, often times settling on the current moment. These discussions have helped to inform and challenge SESP’s scholarship, research, learning, and teaching. Jack ’s The Privileged Poor and Sally Nuamah ’s How Girls Achieve. Ewing ’s Ghosts in the Schoolyard Anthony A. ![]() Love’s special appearance and the community discussions around her work follow several other books the SESP community has engaged with since 2019, including Eve L. Two book discussions gave space for SESP community members to discuss topics from the book, including the educational survival complex, white rage, homeplace, and the move from ally to co-conspirator. ![]() Prior to the virtual event, SESP purchased nearly 200 copies of Love’s book and distributed them to SESP students, faculty, and staff. Love, the co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, said she wrote the book to really say that “to be a person of color in this country – particularly to be Black and Brown and Indigenous – is to live in a constant state of perpetual survival mode. We Want to Do More Than Survive is equal parts history lesson, autobiography, and call to action. Love, who coined the term Abolitionist Teaching – the idea of bringing the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists into the education world – discussed themes from her award-winning book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. ![]() Love, author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia, recently spoke to nearly 400 members of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) community during a wide-ranging conversation focused on race, racism, justice, joy, love, and equity.
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