Happy Juneteenth, Community.​
Let’s honor freedom by continuing the work our ancestors—and elders—began: educational justice.

Juneteenth marks the long-overdue freedom of enslaved Black Americans in 1865.
But it also marks something bigger: the moment where possibility cracked open.

Because freedom was never just about not being enslaved.​
It was about reclaiming dignity, access, knowledge—and a future that includes all of us.

Across cultures and communities, we’ve seen how education has been withheld, manipulated, or used to divide.​
That’s why so many of us—parents, caregivers, teachers, advocates—are still doing this work.

📚 Frederick Douglass knew education was liberation.
🎓 Mary McLeod Bethune built institutions from nothing.
🖋️ Dolores Huerta fought for bilingual education and access in farmworker communities.
💬 Angela Valenzuela wrote about the subtractive schooling faced by Latinx youth.

This fight is still ours. Especially for our neurodivergent, brilliant, sensitive, or system-ignored children of color.

Support the Mission

On this Juneteenth, consider supporting tools that empower families navigating schools that weren’t built for our kids:

🖍️ Coloring Books for Confidence – Affirmation meets art for self-love
🗂️ Joyful Family Planner – Create structure for thriving in neurodiverse homes
📥 Advocate with Confidence Toolkit – Scripts + templates to navigate IEPs, evaluations, and rights

→ Shop Now – Join the Mission

Let’s honor Juneteenth by recommitting to educational freedom—for every child who learns differently and every family rewriting the system.

With love,
✨ Genie Dawkins
Founder, The Parenting Cipher

P.S. These tools don’t just help one family. They create ripples. Every purchase supports this growing movement of parent-advocates fighting for what all our children deserve.

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