{"id":4506,"date":"2017-12-17T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2017-12-26T08:53:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:53:14","slug":"wee-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/12\/17\/wee-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Wee The People: Talking With Kids About Why There Aren\u2019t More Black And Brown People In Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We want to go to the museum and see black and brown people,” Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Wee The People<\/a> told children during a social justice story time that was part of the “Give the Gift of Black Children’s Literature” event<\/a> at the Frugal Bookstore in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood yesterday. “We want to see people like us.”<\/p>\n

She read the book “Milo’s Museum” by Zetta Elliott and Purple Wong, and talked with the children about equity in representation in our museums. Then she led the kids in drawing pictures of what they’d like to see in their own museum.<\/p>\n

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Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Wee The People leads a social justice story time at the Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, Dec. 16, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nixon-Silberg and Francie Latour are two moms who founded Wee The People to teach children about protest, racism, class, xenophobia, gentrification, gender and difference through visual and performing arts so “that kids can engage on their level.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came out of us wanting to go to a protest and realizing they\u2019re not really family friendly,\u201d Nixon-Silberg told me earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Their first event\u2014a family march for social justice\u2014was in spring 2016. They often appear at libraries and children’s events. During the Porchfest in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood in July, they hosted a\u00a0\u201cProtestival\u201d<\/a> at Boston\u2019s Mozart Park that offered music, stenciling T-shirts, and \u201cBridges Not Walls.” Kids were invited to protest Donald Trump’s planned wall along the United States’ border with Mexico by building a giant wall with boxes and knocking it down and building it again and knocking it down again and building it again and knocking it down again.<\/p>\n

Previously:<\/strong> “Tearing Down The Wall At Wee The People\u2019s \u2018Protestival.\u2019”<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos copyright 2017 Greg Cook.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Wee The People leads a social justice story time at the Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, Dec. 16, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Wee The People leads a social justice story time at the Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, Dec. 16, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We want to go to the museum and see black and brown people,” Tanya Nixon-Silberg of Wee The People told children during a social justice story time that was part of the “Give the Gift of Black Children’s Literature” event at the Frugal Bookstore in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood yesterday. “We want to see people like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[37,164,163,87,162,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}