What can happen when we invite youth to imagine and create community and learning spaces in their own vision? This summer, Amara and Madison, our inaugural Beyond the Ban youth fellows created Annotation Archives, a Detroit-based pop-up book giveaway and community annotation project. They join monét and Erin to share about their reading lives, the ways they find affirmation in books, their dreams for liberated reading in schools, and their learnings from their summer of creating the Annotation Archives. Poet and Brooklyn high school student, Adedoyin, shares her poem, “This Side of Town,” reminding us that we have whatever we need. Then, LaQuesha Sanders is back with part two of our miniseries on student debt. We leave with the questions: What are we building? What possibility does youth imagination offer school abolition and liberatory teaching and learning?

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Intellectual Inheritance

• “A small bookstore was scammed. The local community stepped in to save it.” by Sydney Page, Washington Post
• Crier’s War (duology) by Nina Varela

Community

• Annotation Archives, @annotation.archives
• 27th Letter Books

Music

• Turn Me Up prod. Jwayne Cross [email protected]
• Vibe to the Rhythm prod. Grezzo IG: @truegregmusic
• Temptations prod. DutchRevz
• In the End prod. Nabil Sioty [email protected]
• groove theory prod. ae beats IG: @aebeats_/
• AfroDrill prod. Bigmousebeat
• Dancing on Desks Theme song composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes

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