TEACHING RESISTANCE book out now and updates!

Available now from PM Press! https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1048

NEXT RELEASE EVENT: Monday, November 11th in San Francisco at 7pm. Readings and discussion with contributors @xicana.brava (Michelle Gonzales - happy birthday!), Kadijah Means, Lindsay McLeary, Sarah Orton, Melissa Merin, editor John No, and more. The Green Arcade at 1680 Market Street, San Francisco. thegreenarcade.com

What does it mean to be an openly radical teacher? 

Radical punks, cultural subversives, and revolutionaries have infiltrated classrooms worldwide - and we aren't going away. 

Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom is a collection of the voices of fierce, activist educators from around the world with a focus on those in and around DIY/punk subculture who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university. These educators emphasize radical teaching practice. Brutally honest and written in accessible language, this book cuts through the usual sanitized tone used in most teacher-penned anthologies, and provides dozens of uncensored reflections and specific examples of deeply critical pedagogy in action. More than just a book for teachers, Teaching Resistance is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions, collectively transform (and re-imagine) educational spaces, and empower students and other teachers to fight for genuine change. Topics include community self-defense, Black Lives Matter and critical race theory, intersections between punk/DIY subculture and teaching, ESL, anarchist education, Palestinian resistance, trauma, working-class  education, prison teaching, the resurgence of (and resistance to) the Far Right, special education, antifascist pedagogies, and more.

Edited by social studies teacher, author, and punk musician John Mink, the book features expanded entries from the long-running monthly column in politically insurgent punk magazine Maximum Rocknroll, plus new works and extensive interviews with subversive educators, all of whom are unified against oppression and readily use their  classrooms to fight for human liberation, social justice, systemic  change, and true equality. Contributing teachers include Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Dwayne Dixon, Martín Sorrondeguy, Alice Bag, Miriam Klein Stahl, Ron Scapp, Kadijah Means, Mimi Nguyen, Murad Tamini, Yvette Felarca, Jessica Mills, Melissa Merin, Mike Frieberg, Frankie Mastrangelo, John Fleissner, Sarah Orton, Frederick Schulze, Christiana Cranberry, Lindsay McLeary, Kadijah Means, Natalie Avalos, E. Schmuse, Stephen Raser, Ash Tray, Ian McDeath, Roburt Knife, Jessalyn Aaland, Lena Tahmassian, Taylor McKenzie, Ruth Crossman, Scott Campbell, and Mike Corr.