2022 Articles

The Curriculum Is in Us: Using the Cypher to Create a Love-Based Curriculum for Youth by Youth

Naputi, Vera; Mitchell, Deniye; Pastrana, Andrew; Ross, Aurora; Hernandez-Ruiz, Michel; Tejeda, Angel; Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda

In this article, a student curriculum team, their advisor, and an author describe how reading poetry about love liberated them and deepened their personal relationships. As part of a cypher community, they pushed the boundaries of their school’s curriculum and discussed various forms of love while writing lessons based on Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kaleidoscope Vibrations, 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic.