Today I'm writing my entry from inside the festival of books children's tent on a beanbag chair wearing a paper princess crown surrounded by the sheer energy and infinity within children, seeing them all playing and moving and reading and learning together with no hesitation makes me think, within the context of gender studies, how much we can relearn from children. Yes, this concept in an of itself is far from original, but I think retaining and reusing some aspects of childhood interaction would eliminate all kinds of issues. Kids don't see race or ethnicity or religion or gender they see peers friends collaborators playmates. We need to see beneath the constructs of society we use to mask and obscure the undeniable string of humanity tying us all together.
I suppose it's a tone poem to tolerance and caring and connection that I am going for right now because I think we can do better as a culture, as a society and as a global species and we will learn how by being kids again.
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