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- January 16, 2025, Kathy Palmer, of Gather Around Consulting, and Debbie Lee Keenan discuss the importance of creating inclusive communities and the role of personal identity in shaping these communities. View recording. Passcode: ?ZZ3k*Ir
- January 15, 2025, Families Embracing Anti-Bias Values – Film Preview & Conversation at EmbraceRace.org on the Talking Race & Kids podcast.
- January 14, 2025, Families Embracing Anti-bias Values, Exchange Press. Dive into the lived experience of families working to build a more just world by supporting young children. Come to learn from Debbie LeeKeenan about how we all can build true communities of care.
- December 18, 2024, We All May Look Different, We All Still Belong: Families Embracing Anti-bias Values, The Early Link Podcast. Conversation with host Rafael Otto, producer John Nimmo, and parents Gabriel and Casey. Listen on: Spotify, Apple, Soundcloud
- November 7, 2024, Timely new film on anti-bias parenting released amid growing demand for social change, by Elayna Yussen
- October 11, 202:4, ExchangeEveryDay, What kind of world do we want to create with our children?, by John Nimmo
Reviews
“Huge shares of US parents say they want to help their kids learn about race, but few of us make serious, sustained efforts to meet that challenge in practice. In “Families Embracing Anti-bias Values” we meet a wonderful variety of mostly young families – diverse along lines of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, family structure, and more – earnestly striving to close the gap between the anti-bias values they claim and the way they actually raise their children and live their lives. We look forward to screening this film for our EmbraceRace community and encourage you to do the same with your community. Be sure to leave time for plenty of discussion!“
– Melissa Giraud & Andrew Grant-Thomas, EmbraceRace
“An important reminder for early care and education professionals that we are not the “original anti-bias” experts. Families and children who live, who have lived the bias, breathed in the bias of our world are the experts we need to listen to, to learn from, to expose, explore, and understand our world of bias – and how to change that world. Thank you for opening the door to access this with the ’embrace’ of your film.”
-Alan Guttman, Former Director of Early Childhood Policy & Systems, Johns Hopkins University School of Education
“A moving and timely watch for me. I highly recommend anyone who is working at the intersections of early childhood education, care, and justice to take a comfy seat and watch. The stories and conversations we share across difference matter. My heart is always renewed when I consider all the allies and community members making beautiful spaces for our children. We have the power to shape a hopeful future.”
-Binta Dixon, Community Engagement Strategist
“Watch this film. Then talk about it. Then watch it again.
This film cuts through common myths about anti-bias education by showing us that families want and need access to programs where each and every child’s development around identity, diversity, justice, and activism is intentionally nurtured in community.
Thank you to the brave parents and caregivers who shared a bit about your lives so that we might strengthen and recommit to the kinds of early childhood practices that can change the world.“
–Dr. Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, Author, “Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race“
“Seriously, this film hit me right in the emotions as both a social justice-minded educator, and a parent of early-childhood education aged, racialized children. There is so much power in the complexity highlighted about the work of families and communities in raising children with anti-bias and anti-racist values. I loved it and was inspired by it. Everyone, catch a screening where ever you can!”
-Dr. Shanté Stuart McQueen, Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, Portland State University
“Your new documentary film deeply, deeply touched our hearts and minds. It is truly a companion to the first documentary and we realize that these two parts are inseparable. We needed BOTH. So much food for thought — it reignited our purpose of what we stand up for. Sharing this film with the families in our school community would be also a powerful, inviting testament to what kind of community/world we are striving to create together.”
-Misa Okayama, Author, Making Adjustments, Meditations on Learning with Children
