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'''Class Project - Raising Free Children: an introduction'''

I spent the last semester reading about anarchism and the way anarchist tend, or ought to, approach subjects like feminism and intersectionalism. the Oxford Dictionary defines intersectionality as “the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage”. Somewhere along the way I found myself wondering, why are we always talking about “adults”? Let’s say we’ve come so far to understand how hard life on this wrecked of a planet is for an adult member of an oppressed group. Every kind of struggle that people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, disabled or poor people have to face every goddamn day – now imagine going through that being young. Are children an oppressed group? I would say yes. Because most of us – yes, so called leftists too - fail to include them as equal citizens. Fighting for a better tomorrow does mean fighting for children, hoping that we manage to make their future slightly happier and brighter than what we have. Which is you know, not particularly great. (I’m a woman of color from the middle east, so if you ask me “not great” wouldn’t do. It’s terrible. It's all darkness and horror and living in constant fear and all-devouring rage. But’s it’s a story for another day) Yet responsibilities do not end there. It’s as simple as that: Oppression is oppression. You can’t sugarcoat it. Can’t downplay it. Can’t justify it. Just because little humans rely on us in onr way or another does not give us the right to make decisions on their behalf, mold them to our liking or just postpone looking into their struggles to another time – because adults are talking now, kid. We’re too busy saving the world and abolishing capitalism. You’ll understand when you grow up.

This project is a little step in a direction that I deem both interesting and necessary and hopefully wouldn’t be the last one I take.

*Refrence List for the Project