@ONTHEFLIPSIDE
ANTHONY COLEMAN
@ONTHEFLIPSIDE · 4:20

WITH OR WITHOUT PERMISSION.

It was where they maybe not only they just put a dress on, maybe took a male and took them put finger Polish on them or female and they dressed them up with male clothing and maybe put a hat on them and turn it backwards and just doing things to interchange the sexes as far as what they were and what they wear and things like that and all. But without your permission and would you be mad, would you go and find out, hey, what's going on?
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:00

@ONTHEFLIPSIDE

And if I was a parent and I heard about that personally, I'd be like, wow, that's cool. I trust your teacher and I trust the pedagogical intention that they have. So what scares me most is when we have conversations where parents are getting involved and saying, I don't want my child to learn about certain information because it goes against what I believe in. And I think we've got to keep school as a safe place for expansive learning
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@ONTHEFLIPSIDE "a Post-Humanism Perspective" 🧘🏽‍♂️❤️🙏🏽💭💯

Very interesting. Swell. Thank you so much for creating this space and asking such a question. You know, as you were talking, this idea of permission mission acute us to think about from a posthumanism standpoint, of course, that parents don't own their children. There's always, like a heavy emphasis on ownership of children. But at what point do we ask the child what do they want, feel or think?
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@rocio
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 4:16

On Listening

Having been a child not too long ago, I guess seeing it from the other side, from feeling maybe the disappointment or the confusion or the tension when you explore or do something that's out of the realm of what's expected of you, which is intense for a kid. And I can imagine it's only getting more, I don't know, more complex. And now that these things I don't know, like the freedom of gender expression and everything is becoming a more open and transparent conversation
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@zejacques
Jack .
@zejacques · 5:00
And my final point on that is with children, I think it's important that they're allowed to explore what comes up for them with their emotions and their thoughts around these things, but also in the age of social media and heightened popularity, I do worry sometimes that kids will react to this from a perspective
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@zejacques
Jack .
@zejacques · 1:21
And that's a journey in itself. There's nothing wrong with that. But I just wonder about the fine line between allowing children the freedom to express and explore, while also acknowledging that in this day and age, there's a strong presence from social media and popularity and trends. So how can we guide them to explore for themselves but also make informed decisions that are for them and not for others? Thank you
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@ZLisbon
Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 4:51
It's really actually still not okay because the kid can't say can't really consent unless it was the kid's idea. If he's at home and he says, mom, dad, I want to wear a dress, that's a different story. I could talk about that as a completely different story, but this is completely inappropriate. I feel similarly just to make it clear that it's not just about gender for me. I feel like children being put in movies and TV with parental consent
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