Manifesto!
with Stephanie Jin
Tue, Feb 224, 2026
10:00–17:00
F205
TUTORIAL NOTES:
Really useful tutorial. I used it to rationalize and visualize a component to my publication that approaches the patients direct in the joint learning space with a kid. Other references I have found do this within the book, or on the back cover blurb, as an Afterword or Foreword. Today, I made letter written from one patient to another, anonymously. It explains the origins of the publication, the reason it exists and what it could achieve.
This could perhaps form part of a feedback system when I test the publication, within a small pack with the stamp etc.
Dear Parent,
I moved to a place where, years ago, a Brit drew a line in green pencil that divided an island and its people.
Whilst we were travelling around, my kids started asking questions like “where are the missing pieces of the Parthenon, Daddy” and “why to the Egyptians have pounds?”.
So, I had to tell them that our country had invaded places, taken other people’s stuff and actual people too.
It was all before I was born, but I felt awful having to say those things, guilty even. When I was their age, I never questioned why every map had the UK at the centre, or why there was something called the “Third World”, or the “Middle East”.
What did you learn about the British Empire at school? Like me, probably very little. I remember doing the wars in History, Shakespeare in English. It was all very patriotic. No one told me about the hidden stuff.
Britishness is complicated. I’m trying to be a good human despite the colonial history of the place I was born. It’s still there, under the surface. Maybe we can un-hide it. Start with this book and the kid that’s sitting next to you.
Because we want them to be better than us, right?
Good luck ,
Another Parent