The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh, inspiring perspective.
Many works on parenting and families wind up re-inscribing hierarchies by declaring how kids should be liberated. Trust Kids! insists on youth autonomy, listening to youth, and questioning adult supremacy on every page.
At the heart of the book are conversations about all the ways that children can be included, loved, and cared for in more generative, just, and egalitarian ways. Its essays explore the liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in relationships among children, youth, and the adults in their lives. They also trace how oppressive attitudes toward children, far from being “natural” forms of kinship with the youngest members of our families and communities, have identifiable social and historical roots.
Featuring essays and poems by:
carla joy bergman, Curiousism Cyphers, Noleca Radway, Helen Hughes, Dani Burlison, Enfys Craft, Uilliam Joy Bergman, Yasamin Holland, Tim Holland, Idzie Desmarais, Akilah S. Richards, Meghan Carrico, chris time steele, Antonio Buehler, Sara Zacuto, Rebecca Solnit, Tasnim Nathoo, Jon Pawson, Maya Motoi, Wakaba, Joanna Motoi, Cindy White, kitty sipple, Chris Mercogliano, Lily Mercogliano Easton, Stacey Patton, Toby Rollo, Gustavo Esteva, Madhu S. Prakash, Dana L. Stuchul, Gabriel Zacuto, and Zach Bergman.
Features art by:
ck nosun, Chris Bergman, Anon, Tasnim Nathoo, Gabriel Zacuto, and Grant Hoskins aka Gadzooks Bazooka.
Cover art by: Mona Caron