Akilah S. RichardsGood Morning America Got Unschooling All Wrong (Here’s How)Earlier this month, the ABC Television produced show, Good Morning America, published a blog post about unschooling titled “I tried…9 min read·Apr 23, 2020----
Akilah S. RichardsDo Unschoolers Use Curricula?Our oldest unschooling child — Marley (age 13) — is ready for a curriculum. I know this because I am a magical, woke-ass, exceptional…3 min read·Nov 22, 2017----
Akilah S. RichardsHow Minimalism and Unschooling IntersectTraveling turned out to be a big part of our deschooling process as a family. When public education showed us, for the umpteenth time, that…4 min read·Jul 3, 2017--3--3
Akilah S. RichardsThoughts on Raising Free People: TantrumsWe rarely extend mood courtesies to children. For example, if a child throws a tantrum, we view that as them being “bad” or misbehaving…2 min read·May 31, 2017--2--2
Akilah S. RichardsWhy Racial Justice and Raising Free People Can’t Include Coddling White Guilt“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being…4 min read·Apr 9, 2017----
Akilah S. Richards4 Ways White People Can Support Black People in the Unschooling World Without Being IntrusiveThis question came from one of my podcast listeners who supports the show through my Patreon page, and asked this question:4 min read·Apr 6, 2017--1--1
Akilah S. RichardsinStudent VoicesPrivilege, Oppression, and Thoughts on Raising Free PeopleI am learning so much about myself as a result of our collective decision (Kris, Marley, Sage, and me) to shed the not-it shit, embrace…5 min read·Mar 18, 2017----
Akilah S. RichardsinStudent VoicesFrom Outsourcing Oppression to Unschooling for LiberationAbout six years ago, Kris and I stopped sending our daughters to elementary school. Our big idea was to make ourselves fully available to…6 min read·Dec 23, 2016--1--1
Akilah S. RichardsNavigating Unschooling and Blackness In the American Education SystemMy doctors consider my daughters medical anomalies; I prefer the word miracles. My health had been compromised by a painful disorder…6 min read·Sep 29, 2016--1--1
Akilah S. RichardsLeaving Plantations (mis)Named SchoolThere have been more murders of Black people: Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma and (though at the time of writing this, reports say one…2 min read·Sep 22, 2016----
