Jesse : Im Having Problems With A Guy

Jesse : I’m having problems with a guy…

Mercy : Like his dead body won’t fit in this bag kind of problems or you like him problems ?

everyone ever: please stop destroying all life and happiness

the lone power: stop kinkshaming me

LdyEnki reads Anger is a Gift Chapter 17

The continuing adventures of LdyEnki being unprepared for Mark Oshiro’s “Anger is a Gift”. 

Chapter 17:

I feel like Moss, excited by the show of support and the plan for a walkout.  But I also feel foreboding that something is going to go horribly wrong.  

Wanda is amazing as usual and I really feel here that she is teaching the next generation how to be leaders and activists.  Specifically she is training the next generation of black women.

Interesting questions raised about what makes a school safe and who do we need to make it safe from.  For Moss and his friends it’s the police and the measures put in place to keep the school ‘safe’ that make them feel threatened.  For some of the adults in the meeting, the students need to be protected from the other students.  

But what are the metal detectors really going to do?  How do they increase safety?  If there was a history of students sneaking in knives and stabbing each other, then yeah, they would help, but that is not what is going on here.  Even ignoring the truth of the situation, the ‘brawl’ was unarmed fighting and a projectile chair.  In my admittedly limited experience, all the school violence I have seen has been similar, fist fights between students, sometimes very serious, but still fist fights.  Metal detectors will do absolutely nothing to prevent that.

I can admit that like some of the cautious adults in the crowd, I can see the benefits of having a police officer present to respond to problems quickly.  I used to teach at a community college.  One day a young man burst into my classroom and started pounding on one of my male students.  He, of course, fought back.  There was blood.  There was nothing, absolutely nothing, I could do to break up the fight.  We had a officer on campus.  He heard the commotion and came in and was able to separate them.  And I can admit, I was very relieved to have him present.  Statements were taken, stern talking tos given, but no one ended up handcuffed on the floor and as far as I know no one was arrested.  The cop defused the situation and that was all.  But, both of the young men were white.  I honestly don’t know if it would have gone down differently if one of them had been black.

We want school to actually be safe for kids but cops who can’t be trusted not to escalate or create a situation are not the way to do that.  I don’t know what is.  It might help to remember that the ‘hooligans’ we want to protect kids from are the kids we’re trying to protect.  

Chapters 1 and 2 are here.

Chapters 3 and 4 are here.

Chapters 5 and 6 are here.

Chapters 7 and 8 are here.

Chapters 9, 10 and 11 are here.

Chapters 12 and 13 are here.

Chapters 14 and 15 are here.

LdyEnki reads Anger is a Gift Chapter 16

The continuing adventures of LdyEnki being unprepared for Mark Oshiro’s “Anger is a Gift”.

Chapter 16:

Oh my God, Javier, you are so sweet.  Racing and losing to a little kid in pull ups, I am overcome with the cute.  “Tim Gunn would be proud./At least he is a little weird”  Mark, I am making inappropriate noises in public and it is all your fault.

Dumbledore’s Army!!!!  This reference makes me happy.

Chapters 1 and 2 are here.

Chapters 3 and 4 are here.

Chapters 5 and 6 are here.

Chapters 7 and 8 are here.

Chapters 9, 10 and 11 are here.

Chapters 12 and 13 are here.

Chapters 14 and 15 are here.

Wow, that is really amazing.

A Woman’s Resolve

My piece for the Gallery Nucleus 20th Anniversary Mulan tribute exhibition!! https://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/696/exhibition

please don’t knock, the cat has the keys