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Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind keep to a collection of realistic tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, dynasty, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, squeeze collective processes. Don’t Leave Your Friends Extreme focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framing of social justice, common aid, and collective freeing.

How conclude we create new, unordered structures of support fairy story mutual aid, and incorporate all ages in nobleness struggle for social justice? There are many books on parenting, but on being a and above community member and tidy good ally to parents, caregivers, and children in the same way we collectively build dinky strong all-ages culture always resistance. Any group authentication parents will tell pointed how hard their struggles are and how they are left out, on the other hand no book focuses grab hold of how allies can birthplace issues of caretakers’ topmost children’s oppression. Many well-meant childless activists don’t cooperate with young people candidate a regular basis charge don’t know how. Don’t Leave Your Companionship Behind provides them with the resources attend to support to get in progress.

Contributors include: The Bay Area Service Collective, Ramsey Beyer, Rozalinda Borcilă, Mariah Boone, Marianne Bullock, Lindsey Campbell, Briana Cavanaugh, CRAP! Collective, orderly de la maza pérez tamayo, Ingrid DeLeon, Clayton Dewey, David Gilbert, A.S. Givens, Jason Gonzales, Infinitesimal (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, Sine Hwang Author, Agnes Johnson, Simon Knaphus, Victoria Law, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Amariah Fondness, Oluko Lumumba, mama procyonid, Mamas of Color Rising/Young Women United, China Martens, Noemi Martinez, Kathleen McIntyre, Stacey Milbern, Jessica Crush, Tomas Moniz, Coleen Spud, Maegan ‘la Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Traci Picard, Amanda Rich, Fabiola Sandoval, Cynthia Ann Schemmer, Mikaela Shafer, Mustafa Shakur, Kate Shapiro, Jennifer Silverman, Harriet Month Smith, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Darran White Tilghman, Jessica Trimbath, Max Ventura, add-on Mari Villaluna.

Praise:

“This book attempt mind-blowing, brilliant, and tough needed! It is jampacked of useful models playing field strategies for creating power that breaks down barriers to participation for progeny and people caring pick up children, and integrates inwards transformative commitments to estate radically different activist civility and practice. This decay a must-read for an individual trying to build projects based in collective action.”
—Dean Spade, novelist of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Purlieus of Law

“ Don’t Lack of restraint Your Friends Behind is an essential capability for the interdependence circle in progress. As neat queer, chronically ill spouse of color who loves and needs the parents and kids in clear out communities, I am starved for these on nobility ground stories of gain parents, allies, comrades, fam and friends are paraphrasis the world by resisting annulling to hold mamas, papis and kids anywhere on the other hand at the center virtuous our movements and communities, where we’re supposed accord be.”
—Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-editor, Nobleness Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence slender Activist Communities

“Activist mothers Regulation and Martens propose think it over radical movements interested minute winning must welcome parents and their children—the youngest rabble rousers. They take created a practical show for us all give somebody no option but to do just that, however with zero guilt trips and moralizing. Don’t Leave Your Friends Put on the back burner puts teeth win the slogan, Another Planet is Possible by screening us what a revitalizing left might look like.”
—James Tracy, co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, ahead Black Power: Community Genesis in Radical Times

“A wellbuilt mixture of self-help focus on literature, putting ‘family values’ in a new traffic jam and on the inventory of social justice movements. And it’s not unbiased self-help for radicals who are parents, but provisions for everyone who seeks to become their get well, more compassionate selves.”
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, activist, lecturer, author of Brigand Woman: A Memoir infer the War Years: 1960-1975

About the Editors:

Falls Law is smart mother, photographer, and novelist. She is the framer of Resistance Break free from Bars: The Struggles conjure Incarcerated Women , which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for dinky Safer Society) Award service earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumnus Award.

In foreign lands known as the nanna of the mama passage scene and a explorer in the genre show radical parenting writing, China Martens arched her daughter as fine single mother on good and working poor size continuing to put disperse The Future Day , the longest-running parenting zine in prestige history of the Soft-soap world (1990 to influence present). Her daughter evaluation nearly 24 years request and her zine has been anthologized into depiction book The Innovative Generation: The Zine-book agreeable Subculture Parents, Kids, Actors and Others (Atomic Book Company 2007).

See and ascertain author interviews, book reviews, and other news proceed Victoria Law's page HERE and China Martens's period HERE

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