Free e-book: How to Be an Anti-Racist Parent

(Consider this not so much a blog post as a shameless plug from the great blogosphere beyond …)

Just released from New Demographic and Anti-Racist Parent, How to Be an Anti-Racist Parent: Real-Life Parents Share Real-Life Tips features advice from many members of the ARP community, including Shawn Fink, Jae Ran Kim, Nina Birnbaum, Cloudscome, Meera Bowman Johnson, Margie Perscheid, Mike Lee, Susan Lyons-Joell, and Cynthia Bostwick.

Right-click here to download.

Here is an excerpt:

You can’t protect your children from racism. You need to be able to show them how ugly racism is, or they won’t be able to recognize it for themselves. If your children are kids of color, they’ll need to have survival skills – verbal, intellectual, and physical. And these survival skills aren’t just about driving while Black or confronting skinheads – your kids will need to know how to survive the racism embedded in our educational, economic, judicial and occupational institutions.
–Jae Ran Kim

Download it, read it, and pass it on.

Out of steam

I knew the minute I published that prologue in my supposed ?-part series on naming, renaming, and reclaiming after the naming and renaming that I was creating some kind of blog vortex where the next installment in the series would be trapped in some other blog dimension where I couldn’t access it with my subspace communicator. Or something like that.

Will it ever happen?

Will it?

Hey, don’t look at me. I’m asking you.

(Hmm, OK, not really.)

At any rate, this particular blog is in a temporary (?) state of meh. My TTR blogging muscles are feeling very fatigued lately.

So, in light of some summer business, new endeavors, impending travels and life in general, I’m hanging TTR up indefinitely. I think I need to explore new horizons and see where the wind blows me.

Oh, I’ll be around. No doubt about that. Just … elsewhere, mostly. In … other dimensions. Adoptees, friends, adoptee friends and others who know me can still reach me on my subspace communicator.

Meaning e-mail.

And other Internet avenues.

If inspiration strikes, I may pop back in here. If not …

I’ll catch you on the flip side.