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pmhandley's review
2.0
I wish this book had provided more actionable advice. Instead, it's a bit of a jumble of personal essays and tips from people with hands-on experience with making social justice operations accessible. I don't have a problem with personal essays, and this book provided them from demographics that you don't see published in mainstream sources, but it wasn't what I was looking for based on the title of this book. The personal essays also, to be honest, varied widely in quality, in my opinion. Like the one essay written by a parent about "unschooling" gave me no understanding or a definition of what "unschooling" even is, just that it's how they're educating their children and suggesting sending their kids to a school is not helpful to them, which made it hard for me to take much away from. Likewise, there was little or no context provided for most of the personal essay type sections and this made it a bit confusing to me to follow them.
Most of the concrete advice provided by people who have done the work was actually helpful, although it gets pretty redundant. "Write that childcare is available on flyers" came up a few times. Some of it seems to just reiterate the importance of providing child care at conferences - which ok, that's kind of why I'm reading this book and looking for advice in the first place. I was a little sketched out by the first aid kit advice section, because apart from the obvious stuff like Band-Aids there was a lot of medicinal herb type suggestions that sounded uncomfortably close to homeopathy or "supplement" remedies on top of being impractical to keep on hand. The advice from the KCCA childcare collective was probably the most hands-on and practical and I do recommend using that for reference.
Most of the concrete advice provided by people who have done the work was actually helpful, although it gets pretty redundant. "Write that childcare is available on flyers" came up a few times. Some of it seems to just reiterate the importance of providing child care at conferences - which ok, that's kind of why I'm reading this book and looking for advice in the first place. I was a little sketched out by the first aid kit advice section, because apart from the obvious stuff like Band-Aids there was a lot of medicinal herb type suggestions that sounded uncomfortably close to homeopathy or "supplement" remedies on top of being impractical to keep on hand. The advice from the KCCA childcare collective was probably the most hands-on and practical and I do recommend using that for reference.
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