He won release through a legal maneuver that has given hope to hundreds of other juvenile lifers all serving lifetime parole.

“The city of Rochester suspended police officers seen in an initial video from the 29 January detainment spraying a chemical irritant in the face of the distraught and handcuffed child.”

Childhood, much like race, is not a fixed category. It has not always been treated as a unique stage of social development. Childhood as we know it today — with children considered fragile and innocent — is a modern phenomenon that developed in the 19th century. And this modern version of childhood was racialized at its origins.

Because in the end, anti-racist classes — just like all those back-ordered copies of White Fragility — aren’t going to change anything until the systemic roots of campus racism are dismantled.

“Pornhub became my trafficker,” a woman named Cali told me. She says she was adopted in the United States from China and then trafficked by her adoptive family and forced to appear in pornographic videos beginning when she was 9. Some videos of her being abused ended up on Pornhub and regularly reappear there, she said.

“The terms traditionally used to describe the system are all positive. ‘Child welfare system’ implies that the system’s purpose is to improve or protect the welfare of children. ‘Child protective services’ states that they are services, and that these services are designed to protect children. ‘Foster care’ explicitly states that it is a form of care. In fact, this system is not about child or family welfare, protection, or care. This system is about regulating, policing, punishing and destroying families.” – Dorothy Roberts