Lately Twitter has And finally, to bring a bit of balance, I will be reading some fun fiction. This includes various books filled with fantastical adventure that I will read with my 5- and 3-year-old daughters, such as My Father\u2019s Dragon<\/a>, where a young boy quests to rescue a baby dragon. I just finished The Last Unicorn<\/a>, featuring an immortal protagonist who sheds much light on the human condition, in a way only an immortal can. There\u2019s a parallel between the inevitable triumph of magic and love with the hopefulness found in Vermont\u2019s educational context and the poetry of Coates\u2019 social commentary. I suppose the parallel is unsurprising, since I gravitate to the fantasy genre not just because its stories provide an escape, but also because they offer hard truths alongside hints of paths to a better future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I look at what I am reading and want to read this summer, it\u2019s kind of all over the place. I\u2019ll be reading about Vermont education, racial justice, and some fiction in the fantasy genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,71,219],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reading","tag-social-justice","tag-social-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31412,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/31412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51356xQ%2BswL._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\")
brought to me many articles about another great emerging story\u00a0\u2013 the rise of Ta-Nehisi Coates as a master journalist, truth teller, and increasingly influential public intellectual.\u00a0After savoring his appearances in such places as a feature<\/a> by the New York Times Magazine, an interview<\/a> with Slate, two stories<\/a> on National Public Radio, and a teaser blog post<\/a> in the Atlantic, I\u2019ve ordered his new book Between the World and Me<\/a>. I\u2019m not yet sure how to translate my intentions to be an ally in the fight for racial justice with my new life in the most predominately white state in the union. But I know we each have a role to play and that studying Mr. Coates can only help me figure out mine.<\/p>\n