If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control
Social media disconnects us from realizing the depth of numbers in tangible form. Imagine 40 people in real life standing in front of your art and loving it. That’s a lot of people that fw you. A number on a screen, doesn’t make it any less.
To ask teachers to be on the front line of mass shootings, the front line of a pandemic, and the front line of the struggle against inequality all while underpaying them and systematically underfunding the education system is both cruel and a recipe for societal collapse.
I was today years old when I found out that only 17% of the population feels sensations in their body when they see someone get hurt, and that it’s actually a form of synesthesia