Eve and Kieryn chat about the right-wing extremist pivot to taking down all public education institutions. We’ve talked in prior episodes about radical right-wing groups taking over K-12 education, and today we explain dog whistles of “clasical liberal” education and how even well-meaning leftists are furthering the agenda to dismantle public universities and libraries.

**Notes**

• https://time.com/6309612/christopher-rufo-public-universities-deceptive-essay/
• https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-college-of-florida-abolishes-gender-studies
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/05/15/desantis-defunds-diversity-programs-florida-universities-gen-z/70220061007/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
• https://truthout.org/articles/will-wvus-draconian-cuts-become-a-blueprint-for-austerity-across-higher-ed/
• https://www.axios.com/2023/08/30/west-virginia-university-foreign-language-classes
• https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html
• https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/

Kieryn and Eve chat with Prof. Cedric Lewis about Grove City College’s Critical Race Theory “investigation”. Listen to find out what’s actually happening on campus and what you can do to support the students, staff, and faculty who are being impacted.

Show Notes:Overheard post and chapel sermon https://www.facebook.com/groups/OverheardAtGCC/posts/10159923202569168/

Thread from Jennifer Trujillo Hollenberger

Trustees report 

https://gcc.edu/Home/Our-Story/Leadership-Teams/Office-of-the-President/A-Response-to-the-CRT-Petition

Trustees note 

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10159663989700900&id=253148435899

Jemar Tisby chapel sermon

https://livestream.com/accounts/13431056/events/9256713/videos/212325702

Petitions

https://www.petitions.net/gcc_alumni_in_support_of_dr_jemar_tisby

https://www.petitions.net/preserve_the_educational_mission_of_gcc

News

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/april/grove-city-college-critical-race-theory-crt-jemar-tisby-rep.html

https://americanreformer.org/2021/11/wide-awoke-at-grove-city-college/https://julieroys.com/grove-city-college-caught-crossfire-evangelical-crt-battles/

https://onlysky.media/rebekahkohlhepp/grove-city-colleges-anti-woke-report-contradicts-its-stated-christian-values/

https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/6gduJgJ7S5w0EjGSXSb6YD

Kieryn and Eve decompress about the first coup attempt with everyone’s favorite socialist dog mom (@socialistdogmom), Molly Conger! 

Find out what it was like to be in DC during the attack, discuss some of the religious imagery and hypothesize about why there were so many Shofars around.

Notes:

https://sojo.net/articles/they-invaded-capitol-saying-jesus-my-savior-trump-my-president

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2021/1/6/some-history-behind-the-christian-flags-at-the-pro-trump-capitol-coup

For Bitch Magazine’s Fall 2020 Power Issue, Jaelani Turner-Williams wrote about how crisis homeschooling this fall might benefit Black and brown students in unexpected ways. Kieryn and Eve discuss with Jaelani her vision of a better future where education is equitable and centered on the individual needs of students.

Show Notes:

Jaelani’s twitter: @hernameisjae 

Bitch Magazine article: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/homeschooling-black-girls-learn-in-peace 

CRHE’s homeschooling outcomes research: https://www.othereducation.org/index.php/OE/article/view/258 

Kieryn and Eve catch up on all the non-plague related happenings. Tune in to hear about the rediscovery of Quiverfull in retaliation to the SCOTUS’ ruling on discrimination protections for queer employees, venting about healthcare, and catching up with Jerry Falwell. Because Juneteenth is 30 minutes from now Pacific Time we’re releasing this episode to everyone right away. Go to your local BLM protest or vigil if you can (safely)! If you can’t for whatever reason, A Report from Occupied Territory by James Baldwin is my (kieryn’s) suggested reading

Notes:

https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2020/06/08/liberty-universitys-jerry-falwell-issues-3-tweet-apology-for-controversial-mask-tweet/

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/its-time-for-a-new-culture-war-strategy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/lgbtq-supreme-court-religious-freedom.html

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/12/us/politics/12reuters-usa-healthcare-transgender.html

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