An exit interview with the grads

Karen quizzes Elizabeth and Jon about the end of their high school and junior high years, as the strangest school year ever comes to a close. Also, Elizabeth’s Pride Month recommendations.

Show Notes

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• The kids were not into celebrity grad ceremonies.
• Elizabeth got Jon to read American Gods.
• We read Frankenstein out loud after reading Welcome to Night Vale.
• Alberta Ballet’s Frankenstein was really good.
• There is a movement afoot to rename the Oliver neighbourhood due to Frank Oliver’s racist harm. Find more at #UncoverOliver.
• Let’s Find Out did an episode on the KKK in Edmonton and an update.
• We talked about school resource officers, or SROs, who have been stationed at some Edmonton schools since 1979. Lots has happened on this file, and the story is evolving. Some background:
  • CBC: School board to reconsider school resource officer motion following trustee resignation
  • Edmonton Journal: Edmonton Public School Board chair pushing for re-vote on suspending the SRO program
  • Bashir Mohamed’s SRO research and commentary is compiled in his Edmonton Anti-Black Racism Toolkit.
  • Speaking Municipally discussed the issue in Episode 90.
• Recommended reading and watching for Pride Month:
  • Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
  • Punderworld by Linda Sejic
  • The Sea in You by Jessi Sheron
  • Peritale/Life of Melody by Mari Costa
  • Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
  • Jessica Kellgren-Fozard on YouTube

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A sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth, a teenager, explains a thing to Karen, her mother. And Karen tells Elizabeth how that thing relates to something she knows. Maybe.