Last week NYRA published our comprehensive section on Age Discrimination. It’s the sixth issue section on our website, and the second in the past year. At NYRA we stand against discrimination and actively work against ageism in all facets of society. To end age-based discrimination, we must work against the prejudicial treatment of people based…
When it comes to many social justice causes — such as LGBTQ rights, feminism, racial equality, and economic justice — youth are typically discouraged from speaking out and leading movements. Even historically, the majority of progressive movements were led by older individuals who supposedly had more wisdom and experience than their younger counterparts. However, the…
NYRA has just secured yet another voting age endorsement from Young Democrats of America, the latest of a long string of organizations that have joined the movement! YDA is the official youth arm of the Democratic Party. Gaining their support has taken over a year and a half of going back-and-forth with YDA officials before…
Young people share their experiences of navigating structural oppressions such as ageism through many different expressive media: writing, visual art, music, spoken word, dance, video/film, even multimedia techniques. Today we feature a musical work by a vibrant and thoughtful young person, Lux Onigman. Lux is a rising junior at Morristown High School. Their piece, Youth,…
Every day that I have the presence of mind to remember it, I am so grateful and so excited and so relieved to be a legal adult. I can associate with whoever I like, with no fear that I will bond with them only to be barred from seeing them later. I can read any…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This wasn’t a role that I actively sought. Rather, it came to me with a question mark – and after some consideration and confused “why me?”, I realized I was called to serve. I began in NYRA just over a year ago as a new member of the…
She’s a 16-year-old single mother struggling to manage school and pay bills. He’s 17 and juggling two full-time jobs. She is also 17 and was born with a disability that requires a dependence on the government for access to medicine. They are 16 and attend a high school in a district that is in consideration…
Reposted from My Unschooling Adventure with permission from the author. As much as I’d like to think otherwise, I haven’t fully recovered from school. Teachers treating me as superior to other students because of my test scores led me to conflate my worth with my achievements. Even now, I have a tendency to think of…
The issues of conventional schooling have harmed our youth in more ways than we recognize, causing unnecessary stress and pain to students throughout the US. With times such as these, where society is changing before our very eyes, we call for the total restructuring of the conventional schooling system that prevails in the US today….
Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Nina Pop. George Floyd. Tony McDade… Say their names and remember them and all the Black people who have lost their lives to police brutality. Say their names and remind yourself (if it was not already obvious to you) that the U.S. is built upon the exploitation of Black and Indigenous…
