Dr. Taylor Cummings

And this is what we're dealing with.

And so really giving people eyes to see, you know,

reality in a different way, but also for them to understand how they see it for their own selves.

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Yeah, so it's titled The Miseducation of Taylor Cummings.

And it was an autoethnographic analysis of belonging in the United States education system from kindergarten to 12th grade.

And so really understanding the issue, right?

So I'm an educational psychologist.

One of the leading motivation theories in educational psychology is called self-determination theory.

And I was like, wow, self-determination.

that's a big word in the black liberation movement.

That's a big word in human rights.

And so I started to really dig into the self-determination and understanding, okay, well, what does it mean for black folks to be self-determined in a system that is literally counterintuitive to their self?

And so what does it mean to be self-motivated, to be able to create and be self-governing in these ways?

And so understanding that

That's not necessarily a reality for us right now.

And so I was really digging into this.

And the theory itself says that we need a sense of autonomy.

We need a sense of competence and we need a sense of belonging.