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Raising Free People

Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work

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No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money.

Raising Free People explores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children.

In these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear, and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods.

©2020 Akilah S. Richards (P)2021 Tantor
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A beautifully honest and vocal book, filled with real life talk from Akilah .

A wonderful listen

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This book speaks to my soul.

It's everything I didn't know I needed.

This is one of the few books that I know will stay with me forever.

Food for the soul

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This gave me everything I ever needed! From the words to the reading, Akilah did the damn thing!!!!

Amazing!

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