Jitu Brown is running for the new school board in Chicago. Please join me for a virtual house party Monday at 6 p.m.
I have known and admired Jitu Brown for over a decade. For years, Jitu has fought for great neighborhood public schools in Chicago, even putting his health on the line by engaging in a hunger strike to keep Dyett High School open when then-Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel attempted to shut it down.
Jitu is one of my heroes and one of my teachers.
Jitu is not only an extraordinary warrior for educational justice and equity in Chicago but also the leader of a national organization, Journey for Justice, that networks public school advocates in all of our major cities fighting for excellent and equitable public schools. For years, Jitu served as a member of the NPE Action Board.
One of Jitu’s causes, fighting to restore elected local control of Chicago’s public schools, has now been realized.
I am delighted that Jitu is running for a seat on the newly formed local school board, representing the 5thDistrict Seat on the West Side of Chicago. However, to gain that seat he will need our help.
I am asking that you join me in supporting Jitu’s campaign by attending a virtual house party for Jitu this Monday, May 13, beginning at 7:00 pm EST./6 pm CST. The link to this important event is below. I hope to see you there!
Virtual House Party for Jitu Brown (Chicago’s 1st Elected School Board!) Time: Monday, May 13, 2024 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82630667170?pwd=tB1A9KkDg8a9DXKgbBonCgqlRmUApU.1 (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82630667170?pwd=tB1A9KkDg8a9DXKgbBonCgqlRmUApU.1) Meeting ID: 826 3066 7170 Passcode: JITU!
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Good morning Diane and everyone,
This isn’t on topic but it does address a comment I made and Diane responded to concerning the use of the phrase “pregnant people.” I’ve never heard “penis owner” as mentioned in the article.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/health/gender-inclusive-language-wellness/index.html
Mamie,
That’s one of the silliest terms ever.
A “penis owner”!! Since when do you identify by your body parts? And in what do you “own” them? And in what circumstances would you use this term? You could not refer to someone else as “a penis owner” unless you knew that to be a fact. How would you know? Certainly you would not introduce yourself that way.
The only area where it conceivably could make sense is in medicine. Like, say, there’s outreach for prostate cancer screenings. Some people who are biologically male identify as women, so conceivably you would rather use the term “people with prostates” rather than “men,” because the former term would exclude trans women.
That said, I think it’s ridiculous and functions only to (1) get people even more worked up about wokeness, and (2) get other people worked up about anti-wokeness and then taking the position that this terminology is perfectly reasonable, which then (3) gets anti-woke people more worked up when they see more people paying lip service to ideas like this. And so on.
Also, trans women surely know they are biologically men, so I don’t think there’s much risk in not adopting this terminology.
Glorious Leader is a proud penis owner, btw:
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