A review by maximum_moxie
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love

4.0

A beautiful and important book--but as a white woman, this book was not written for me, which is Love's entire point. More a manifesto than a book of pedagogical theory, it does the "freedom dreaming" work it advocates for rather than outlining specific strategies. While I found it moving and radicalizing, this is not a guide to abolitionist teaching so much as it is a galvanizing force to look into such teaching and be humble in my own approaches in the classroom.