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A queer Black and trans nonprofit project of @generationcommongood Founded by Jasmine and Mo Banks organizing working class parents.

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I never intended my life to be political. My kids and I deserve better and I will never vote for anyone who doesnt understand basic biology 🤪

If this bothers you, Dolly tells you where you can go 🔥👹

@parentingispolitical @reprobwittman

#vote #transrights #humanrights #trans #dollyparton

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Generation Common Good student organizers joined thousands of other students, workers, and community members in a walkout to demand a freeze on AI until we the people have a say in how it’s built, a stake in what is produced, and real safety guardrails in place.

The National Walkout to Freeze AI had over 50+ actions in 31 states organized by @irreplaceable_org.

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JINKIES! It’s getting scary out here😭😭😭

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Parenting in America in 2026 is No Kings in the morning. 4 year old birthday gymnastics parties in the afternoon. Oh, and did I mention that our route home goes through the site of a mass shooting? #emotionalwhiplash #parentingispolitical #dadsdemandaction?

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The surviving child who was SHOT IN THE FACE, is a wheelchair user.

Like my son. He starts public preschool in January.

Their precious baby couldn’t run or hide.

Landry, my precious baby, can’t run or hide.

Disabled kids lives are under attack from the government as they roll back policy after policy. While parents fight for their kids to get the education they deserve, kids go to school and face THIS.

Meanwhile the government doesn’t want them living at home.

They have no safe place.

Disabled kids matter.

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Big AI’s CEOs want to slow down when they decide to, pick their own watchdogs, and help write the federal rules they get graded on. Congress talked about it for a week, then left town until after the election.

Nobody asked us. So on October 20, we’re walking out.

Generation Common Good is joining the National Walkout to Freeze AI. Thousands of students, workers, and community members will walk out of class, off the job, and into the street with one demand: freeze new frontier AI until we have a say in how it’s built, a stake in what it produces, and real safety guardrails in place.
Campuses. Workplaces. Data centers. Politicians’ offices. AI companies’ front doors.

Sign up at the link in bio and an organizer will connect you to the action nearest you, or help you start one.
#FreezeAI #NationalWalkout #October20

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I have a soft spot for animals, a big heart for people, and an extremely limited supply of patience for cruelty. ❤️‍🔥

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I keep circling the same uneasy truth: we talk about what children need as if every answer can be bought, scheduled, optimized, or outsourced.

We chase better schools, activities, gear, opportunities, savings, experiences, and proof that we did enough by everyone else’s standards.

Yet a child can have every material comfort and still inherit little of what helps a person become capable, grounded, discerning, and harder to manipulate.

They can have access to everything and still not know what their family stands for, what adulthood asks of them, how to carry grief, how freedom is earned, how responsibility changes relationships, what money cannot touch, what their body is for, who they want to become, or where they belong when the internet goes quiet.

This is why I keep stretching the word wealth far beyond bank accounts and investment portfolios.

I’m interested in what actually moves between generations: habits carried in the body, stories told in kitchens, skills passed down during chores, and how a family makes sense of the world together.

Money can support some of it… but most of it cannot be purchased. And this is where initiation comes into focus.

Initiation asks adults to notice when a child is changing and take that shift seriously enough to teach, gather, witness, mark the moment, and hand over real trust. It also asks us to stop treating childhood like a holding pen before “real life” begins.

I also think many adults are grieving the same absence. We crossed huge thresholds with barely a word to mark them. We became adults through mistakes, bills, heartbreak, consequences, peers, advertising, work, porn, breakups, illness, debt, death, and whatever algorithm got to us first.

But this doesn’t mean we’re SOL… it just means becoming more deliberate about what we pass on from here.

📲 Comment WEALTH for the full article and companion toolkit about the 13 Dimensions of Wealth.

🙇 Comment CONSULT to apply for my private consulting waitlist which will reopen in 2027 to new clients again for the first time since becoming a mom.

❤️ Follow @jenstateofmind x @earlyearthlings for more on family culture, initiation, and the systems shaping our lives

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"It was always my hope that we had come to trouble structure. Not merely accept it." - Ta-Nehisi Coates

For over a decade the @aapnationalconference was one of the highlights of my year. A place that I thought I was learning from & connecting with colleagues that were there to trouble structure on behalf of kids, not merely accept it.

But the last three years have opened my eyes to the heartbreaking reality that far too many FAAPs & most all of the @ameracadpeds leadership have accepted the structure of silence when it comes to Palestinian lives.

The biggest issue impacting our children's health in 2026 is not vaccines.

It's not Medicaid.

It's not gun violence.

It is dehumanization.

Yet the AAP continues to refuse to acknowledge the incredible harm dehumanization is playing in our society & over the course of the last three years has ignored petitions & letters from members, the internal advocacy of the member elected health equity leadership, & even resolutions voted on & passed by all AAP leaders.

I spoke at the 2022 University of Minnesota School of Public Health commencement about how we all have reasons for our work & seasons in which we do it.

The reason for my work remains the same: trying to heal our kids, communities & healthcare systems by centering marginalized communities & "troubling structure, not merely accepting it."

My season for spending my time, talents & money in the AAP towards that reason has come to an end.

There are other ways to trouble structures like the AAP & other ways to ultimately help bring about the world our children deserve.

ALL our children.

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#AAP2026

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Late night rambles while I’m quarantined away from my babies with strep throat.

This earth is both terrifying and inspiring. We can absolutely raise a generation that does a better job with this world than we could have ever imagined.

We can choose to raise curiosity and compassion.

I refuse to let ignorance and disgust win.

#motherhood #cornell #raisinglittles

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The federal government just removed some of the clearest rules we had protecting disabled people from being pushed into institutions when they could live at home with the right support.

The Section 504 rules were very specific about what states and other programs receiving federal health funding couldn’t do when their policies were putting disabled people at serious risk of institutionalization.

For families like ours, one of the easiest examples is nursing.

A state never has to tell you, “Your child has to live in a facility.” It can simply not provide enough nursing for your child to safely live at home. Technically, you’re still free to keep your child home, but if the care your child needs is only realistically available in an institution, that isn’t much of a choice.

The rules that were just struck down specifically addressed that problem. They addressed making services easier to get in an institution than at home, putting restrictions on community services that weren’t placed on institutional services, and, importantly, situations where someone wasn’t institutionalized yet but the way the system was operating put them at serious risk of ending up there.

Those specific federal rules are now gone nationwide.

And that matters a lot in states where home and community-based services are already underfunded. A state doesn’t have to openly decide that disabled children or adults should live in institutions. If it doesn’t adequately fund the nursing, personal care, providers, and other services people need to stay home, the result can be that institutional care is available while actually living in the community becomes impossible.

For families like mine, this is what scares me. The question isn’t just whether Landry should be able to grow up at home with his family. It’s whether the nursing, therapies, equipment, and other support he needs to make that possible will actually be there.

I’m an attorney and Landry’s parent, and he has disabilities. We advocate for disability rights, and I’d be happy to explain any and everything I can, or connect you with people on a national level who have dedicated their lives to disability rights and justice.

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We are thrilled to welcome our new Volunteer + Organizing Fellow to our cohort of young leaders building power on their campuses and in their communities.

Help us welcome @kaydenxofficial by dropping some love in the comments! And stay tuned for more updates from our new cohort of fellows and interns!

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