Hey there friends! In the interests of #shameless-self-promotion, we’ve created this separate newsletter and section of the website to highlight our work in other publications. For instance, Nora and I have been writing for Jacobin Magazine for quite some time now.
You can find Nora’s writing about education—present material realities, history, and of course, culture wars—here.
You can find my writing mostly centered on the intersection of race and capitalism, but also with a health does of culture war critique and democratic party bashing—here.
We’ll put whatever we get published in the future in its own separate post, but for now we’d really like to share a new video released by More Perfect Union last week. It’s a short but impactful look at the ridiculous hurdles that children and their families must maneuver in order to experience the privilege of eating a meal at school. Now if you feel that eating shouldn’t be a privilege for some children over others and that nutrition is a vital part of education, then you have a lot in common with the kids featured in this video who have been organizing and winning universal school meals in their states.
Of course I’m poorly burying the lede here, since this is On One Elsewords and all. Our own Nora De La Cour served as co-producer on this video, as it references much of her work on school cafeterias and the material infrastructure of public k12 education. She found all of the people interviewed, wrote interview questions and narration, and maintained journalistic accuracy. She put a lot of love and sweat into this and I believe it shows.
Anyway, please check out the video below and if you have time and inclination, support the video with a like or subscription to More Prefect Union’s YouTube page.
Thanks for checking it out and as always,
Solidarity Forever.