I’ve been writing about parenting and politics for several years now since Collin was 2. Sometimes people still ask me when am I going to write about the “political” stuff. If folks haven’t figured it out yet, ALL of this is political. Parenting is as mass as it can get and its pretty freaking transformative!

These have been heavy times with tens of thousands lives lost in Gaza and across the world. I often look to our elders, the OGs, for guidance about parenting, politics and how they raised their little ones back in the day. 

They lived through the US war against Vietnam and prospects of global revolution to Reaganomics, neoliberalism and now rising fascism… I can’t imagine what it’s like for our little ones growing up in these times with Trump(ism), COVID, the murder of George Floyd, Sinophobia and global war/genocide, to name a few.

But right now fascism is not only on the rise, it has taken over the Republican Party and multiple branches of power in the United States. The far right’s multi-decade plan is coming to fruition. It’s all very intense.

I remember one conversation with a movement elder and OG. I asked an all too generic question, “How did you balance everything?” All the movement work, going to all the meetings, rallies and marches with all the other stuff like birthday parties, play dates, homework time, the “day to day and normal” things. 

I vividly remember this elder saying, “You do it ALL.”…