Issue 14

AREA Chicago #14 was released April 23rd, 2014

Table of Contents

• Mastehead and Contributors Bios
• Notes From a Conversation: Inheriting the Grid #14 by AREA Editors
• Look for Prompts and Scratch and Sniff Throughout This Issue

Self Determination

• Interview With Organizers From the Chicago Student Union by Ave Rivera, Oswaldo Gomez, and Ross Floyd
• Resisting Infantilization, Building Change by Carrie Kaufman
• Whose Kid is She? Adoption, Culture, and the Indian Child Welfare Act by Laura Sachiko Fugikawa
• You Win Some: An Excerpt from Gender Matters by Rebecca Kling
• “Mama Says” by Nate Marshall
• Fearless Leading by the Youth: An Interview by Victoria “Torli” Crider
• Kids are Not Goats by Cesar Hernandez

Children’s Politics

• A Conversation on Schools, Safety, and Poverty From a Child and Parent Perspective by Chiara Galimberti with Oona and Florence Winners
• No Children Allowed by Jacob Klippenstein
• Crayola Architecture: Architecture for Humanity and Public Interest Design in the Hands of Kids by Laura Sachiko Fugikawa
• American Families United by Euan Hague with Kathy McGroarty-Torres
• Children as Part of Our Social Movements by Nancy Anderson
• Chichico by Chicago Childcare Collective
• Pixel Puppet Playground by Chelsea Cossu
•  CPS School Closings and the Politics of Fear by Michael Johnson

Recesses

• A Conversation About Recess at the South Side Community Art Center by Tempestt Hazel
• I Used to Hang Out With my Friends. Hanging Out as Informal Learning Practice in the City by Brenda Hernandez
• A Conversation with SOL by Sol, Mom, Jacob Klippenstein, and Mohamed Mehdi
• Held in From Recess. Every Day. by Wade Tillett
• Introducing the Chicago Radical Coloring Book by Debbie Southorn

Learning and Unlearning

• “C is for Civil Rights” Children’s Social Justice Book Club by Kristen Atkinson, Mariame Kaba, Jacob Klippenstein, Eva Nagao, and Mary Scott-Boria
• Notes Based on a Story Corps Interview by Lisa L. Angonese
•  Students and Teachers as Artists: Collaboration in the Classroom by Nicole Marroquin and Jennifer Klonsky
• Shame Hurts by Nikki Zaleski
• Reflections on Three Workshops About Incarceration by Bianca Diaz

What’s a Child Anyways?

• Dead or Alive? Women and Kids by Erica R. Meiners
• Do it for the Children: Notes for a Counter-Narrative by Moratorium on Deporations Campaign
• “Childhood” at the Margins by Amanda Hope
• WBEZ Are You Listening? by Ivan Arenas
• “Am I Suspicious?” Reflections on the Death of Black Childhood by Rachel Caldor

Infrastructure

• Protecting Children? Race and Child Welfare in the United States by Frank Edwards
• Captivity as Service? Interview With Anonymous Informant About Detention Centers for Undocumented Children by Anonymous
• No Fair! An Afternoon with the Social Justice in Early Childhood Study Group by Gilad Shanan with contributions from Delores Rita, Annie Stone, and Christine Harrell
• Introducing… Chain Reaction by Jane Hereth and Lewis Wallace
• Given and Chosen: Talking to the Family About Sexuality by Nikki Zaleski with members from Illinois Caucas on Adolescent Health’s Youth Leadership Council
• Hoops by Geoff Hing