Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and
artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships
with children in all areas of our lives.The contributors of Trust
Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and
sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing
ideas to offer a fresh, inspiring perspective. Many works on
parenting and families wind up re-inscribing hierarchies by declaring
how kids should be liberated. Trust Kids! insists on youth
autonomy, listening to youth, and questioning adult supremacy on
every page. At the heart of the book are conversations about all the
ways that children can be included, loved, and cared for in more
generative, just, and egalitarian ways. Its essays explore the
liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in relationships among
children, youth, and the adults in their lives. They also trace how
oppressive attitudes toward children, far from being "natural"
forms of kinship with the youngest members of our families and
communities, have identifiable social and historical roots.
