Description:

• Comfy Cozy Community (CCC) teaching and learning is connected to disability justice tenet #3 of ANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC: In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.

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Prior knowledge reflection:

• How do schooling systems treat educators and students like productive workers within a capitalist economy? For example, educators and students are expected to be punctual, timely with deadlines, and produce flawless work.

• How can educators stop the capitalist machine and culture within teaching and learning?

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Essential questions:

• How can educators enact CCC teaching and learning cultures that are anti-capitalist?

• How can educators continuously educate themselves and each other in cultivating CCC teaching and learning spaces that are anti-capitalist?

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Objectives:

• To name anti-capitalist CCC teaching and learning practices.

• To identify the effective ways educators can continuously educate themselves and others in practicing anti-capitalism within teaching and learning.

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Content:

• Black woman activist, Tricia Hersey, co-founded The Nap Ministry, which incites all in society to proactively create structures and systems of rest in order to resist white supremacist and capitalist mandates for productivity. Tricia Hersey describes rest as resistance because when the masses revolt with rest, we refuse to be enablers of capitalist machines which continue to predominantly harm multiply marginalized communities who are degraded, overworked, and/or under-worked as in not hired, not paid enough, not granted opportunities to access basic and quality needs. To learn more, read Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey.

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Effective classroom strategies:

• Educators can cultivate an anti-capitalist CCC teaching and learning space  through building in rest throughout the day, week, and month. Building in rest includes learning activities where students are invited to rest, reflect, and engage in playful and joyful connection and community.

• Educators can continuously learn strategies on how to build in an anti-capitalist practice of rest within CCC teaching and learning through following Tricia Hersey with The Nap Ministry and proactively scheduling and building in no work times of rest, assigning less busy work, and facilitating more activities of play, joy, and community connection.

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References:

• Hersey, Tricia. Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto. New York: Little Brown Spark, 2022.