Tiny Trash

Instead, Freire proposes that teachers and students act as co-creators of knowledge, where students become active participants in their own learning through questions and dialogue. Teachers are also open to changing their understanding of topics in the process of critical dialogue - the goal is not "student learns Fact A and memorizes it as presented," but instead the goal is the knowledge itself, discovered collaboratively by teacher and student, who are acting with empathy and respect towards each other. This also starts the process of the oppressed being able and empowered to question structures of power, take agency, and actively participate in the transformation of society.

Your unemployed friend on a Thursday afternoon.

Honestly, I will be in shambles when I have a job again. There are so many wonderful things that can be done during the day, or even grocery shopping when it's not busy is a huge difference in how stressed you get.

I was gonna make a joke how they should've eased me into this new schedule, like an egg that needs to be tempered lest it cracks, but no. No tempering is needed, for this egg has already hatched! I have soft feathers and small wings that are still learning to fly. You can't put me back in the cubicle-shaped shell! What idiot flightless birds created this system? They've bred us like chicken for slaughter in the cramped coop of capitalism.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

After years of avoidant men... I have become that very thing that plagued me.