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Dr. Sarah B. Shear @profsarahshear.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On behalf of The Critical Social Educator’s publishing collective, I’m excited to share the journal’s newest issue on “Teaching Truth” guest edited by Drs. Ryan Oto, Natasha Murray Everett, and Sara Armstrong Demoiny! www.tcsejournal.com/issues/vol-3...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🔥 Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social for exposing at a national level what we are fighting against in Iowa. What is happening here CANNOT become the national model. www.instagram.com/reel/DFyFVrA...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The fact that refusing to take down an “everyone is welcome” sign is an act of courageous resistance but it is. Payout out to West Ada, Idaho 6th grade teacher Sarah Inama and the students who rallied to support her. And to the other teachers @nrdz.bsky.social and I … m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsn3...

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Students stand in solidarity for teacher told to remove 'everyone is welcome here' poster

YouTube video by KTVB

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This administration doesn’t like “malicious compliance” … just maliciousness.

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First Unitarian Church of Des Moines @firstucdsm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Join us for the 5th Annual Central Iowa Trans Lives Festival on March 29, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility with art, food, live performances, and more. Free admission and parking. Hosted by First Unitarian Church of Des Moines. More info at ucdsm.org.

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

so now we all have to suffer not just the loss of vaccines but the drain of medical professionals away from a state that is backpedaling so hard and fast away from progress it's giving me whiplash. STOP. IMPOSING. YOUR. IGNORANCE. ON. EVERYONE. ELSE.

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Not sure how punishing doctors for using their tools to save lives and prevent pandemics is in any way promoting public health ... but apparently someone emailed a state senator about how she thinks an mRNA vaccine injured her ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Another gem of a bill this session proposes to criminalize people who administer mRNA vaccines. That sounds like it couldn't possibly be true, but it is. SF360 passed out of the Health & Human Services subcommittee on Monday. www.iowapublicradio.org/state-govern...

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Senate bill would criminally punish people who administer gene-based vaccines

People who administer gene-based vaccines, like the COVID-19 vaccination, would face criminal charges under a bill that advanced in a Senate subcommittee Monday.

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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This project is to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections. bit.ly/DEIAclose

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

No victory is ever final, but neither is any defeat.

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I’m sick with grief … I’m worried about loved ones targeted by this and other xenophobic, racist laws who will likely leave and worried even more about them if they stay … I’m furious and disgusted and sad. I’m also resolved and grateful for being in community today with so many others who care.

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Iowa just fast-tracked the removal of gender identity from civil rights. It’s the first state in the nation to do so and I know these legislators aren’t done. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2uBodUa/

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Stay tuned for updates

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

To disrupt dominant, hegemonic, settler-colonial cultural norms, we need pedagogies that forward love, compassion, empathy, and a new conceptualizing of culture as alive and constantly in construction." —Timothy San Pedro (2018) 💗

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It requires a pedagogy that helps students see how Whiteness operates as a race and opens up conversations about the systemic racism in the United States. ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It may mean seeing the humanity in those who have long dehumanized us by easing others’ eyes while adjusting to a new reality inclusive of a more complete story of us. ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

scream for the lights to be turned back off. [Culturally sustaining pedagogy] requires that we acknowledge this process as painful, and as necessary, to see that our liberation is tied together. ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"By centering stories often held in the margins...norms that were once unseen are now made visible. For some, this process is painful—like flipping on the lights in a pitch-dark room. Some may cower, shield themselves from the light, close their eyes tightly, ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Historical amnesia fuels authoritarianism. People not knowing the history of equity work in schools makes it easier to attack. We also miss out inspiration for our own activism. The 1968 Blowouts in LA and the birth of ethnic studies matters now more than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrs...

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The Blowouts

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The Iowa Civil Rights Removal Act (HSB242 legiscan.com/IA/bill/HSB2...) is a breathtakingly cruel piece of proposed legislation that removes transgender Iowans’ civil rights protections, adds restroom and birth certificate restrictions, and redefines sex to erase trans people. Contact reps NOW.

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Iowa HSB242 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly

Summary (2025-02-20) A bill for an act relating to sex and gender, including those and related terms for purposes of statutory construction, indications of a person's sex on certain vital records, gen...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@nrdz.bsky.social and I are so proud of this "timely second edition" of Social Studies for A Better World. Pre-order your copy today and tag us in a picture of your receipt to be entered into a drawing for one of these powerful book bundles: www.routledge.com/Social-Studi...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's refreshing to witness the refusal to comply—especially when existing law backs it up! Institutions do not have to cower and scurry to ask how high when Trump says "jump." We can say NO.

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Let's keep these issues front and center to build momentum for turning back the tide on attacks on public schools. 4/4

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Of course, resolutions aren't the end goal. But they can help our elected boards can send a powerful message to legislators: our communities want public education for ALL. That's also a message that's important for the most vulnerable members of our community to hear right now. 3/4

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

•#2: DMPS Freedom to Read Resolution forms.gle/7bfyUYRrSJrK... •#3: DMPS Rainbow Resolution forms.gle/1HtoWRTGUfdy... •#4: DMPS Teaching ALL Resolution forms.gle/uH1ki1TtLGmb... •#5: DMPS Books Not Borders Resolution forms.gle/4da5JobkFfXc... 2/4

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DMPS Freedom to Read Resolution Petition

Per the Iowa Code Section 279.8B petition process for school board agenda items, this petition states that the Des Moines Independent Community School District Board of Education shall hold a vote to ...

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Katy Swalwell @katyswalwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you are a Des Moines resident, please sign these FIVE petitions to put proposals for resolutions about protecting public education and immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ youth in schools on the school board agendas. • #1: DMPS Public Funds Security Resolution forms.gle/Lt368R1mpQ4D... 1/4

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DMPS Public Funds Security Resolution Petition

DMPS Public Funds Security Resolution Petition Per the Iowa Code Section 279.8B petition process for School Board agenda items, this petition states that the Des Moines Independent Community School Di...

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