Season 4 of the Black Oxygen Podcast will be about education in Wisconsin. In her book We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, Dr. Bettia Love says, “We must struggle together not only to reimagine schools but to build new schools that we are taught to believe are impossible: schools based on intersectional justice, antiracism, love, healing, and joy … Abolitionist teaching is built on the creativity, imagination, boldness , ingenuity, and rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionist to demand and fight for an education system where all students are thriving not just surviving.”

In this season, we will explore what it means to create an educational system where Black children can thrive in Wisconsin, how white supremacy and patriarchal culture is embedded into our current educational system, what Black joy looks like in schools, the impact of COVID on the education , and much more.

First episode comes out of September 6th.