We called in from home to listen to Niigaan Sinclair speak about his work and I found it very interesting. I believe that the new wave of education being based on the experience of marginalized communities is important towards understanding how students will be interacting in our world in the future. As the internet has become an integral part of our lives I think it is important to teach students that the voices of all people matter and that we have to come to terms with the fact that our ancestors committed terrible acts that have left lasting scars in people. Its easy to simply say that it was not you so you are not responsible for it without acknowledging that you benefit from it. I think it is also important to show human stories because a lot of social activism be it LGBTQIA2+ rights, racial equality, gender equality and many other forms of social change tend to focus on the horrible stories and the depressing numbers and they tend to forget that the numbers are people who just want to be people, they want to experience joy and safety and the right to just be a person without having to justify their existence. There is power in showing a person being a person, it disarms so many arguments when hate groups try to paint communities as other. I think it is invaluable to present young students with as many point of view as you can so that they can begin to understand and practice empathy. There is a lot of negativity in this world and I believe Neil deGrasse Tyson said it best when he said “humans are the universe looking back at itself”, the universe is uncaring because humans found it easy to not care. If we started to care about things maybe the universe might care as well.