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This week on Radio Reversal, Marissa is in the studio sharing recordings from a conversation with Helen, a dear friend of Radio Reversal, a former co-producer of the show and a deep thinker on all things education, abolition, work and care. We wanted to have this conversation to follow up on some of the themes after we spoke with Dr Lenine Bourke from Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion (QAI). In this conversation, Helen shares some really interesting and important reflections about occupational violence in mainstream education, schools as sites to understand broader crises in society, and the need to imagine alternatives.
As Angela Davis wrote in her instructive work, Are Prisons Obsolete?: “An abolitionist approach [...] would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society.” To change schools, we also need to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions for education and work that support kids and families, and fight to transform our social context to make them possible.
And in the spirit of getting out in community, check out these events in and around Magan-djin in the coming weeks: https://breadbne.substack.com/p/brisbane-radical-events-diary-281026.
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