Description
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind by Victoria Law and China Martens is a practical collection about supporting parents, children and caregivers within communities, social movements and collective organising. Rather than focusing on parenting itself, the book asks how people who are not parents can become better allies to families and help create communities where children and caregivers are included. It brings together concrete suggestions, personal narratives and ideas around mutual aid, social justice and collective liberation.
The contributors examine the ways parents and children can be overlooked or marginalised within activist spaces and community movements, and consider how those barriers can be addressed. The book offers practical guidance for people who may have little experience interacting with children or supporting caregivers, while also exploring ways to build more inclusive, non-hierarchical structures of support. Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is particularly relevant to activists, community organisers, educators and anyone interested in creating all-ages communities where care and social justice are treated as collective responsibilities.
