an incitement of an insurrection? what about a state-sanctioned act of domestic terrorism? these are just a few of the words that high school students across kentucky and the nation had about the attack on the capitol on january 6th, 2021. 

while it stood as a moment of reckoning and uncertainty for what’s to come, as well as an illumination of the sheer fragility of democracy, young folks, including Teagan Fowler, Jackson Greene, Islam Abushareah, Ava Hadland, and Amina Salahou, have a lot to say about what played out—and what it means for our future.