Artemis Bear
@artemisbear.bsky.social
Co-creating the conditions for culture change through deep deschooling & decolonising; transformational governance, self-directed education, commoning, generative approaches to conflict. Also sometimes very silly on stage. Bristol, UK.
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Artemis Bear
@artemisbear.bsky.social
· Jun 12
What Adults Can Learn from Young People about Transformational Governance
Written by Artemis Bear
medium.com
Children’s rights are a system change issue! I was commissioned by the Transformational Governance Collective to write this piece about What Adult’s Can Learn from Young People About Transformational Governance: medium.com/transformati...
@jonatack.bsky.social just getting around to listening to your two parter on Indoctrination. I would like to draw your attention to a UK education movement that is in line with your ideas - challenging Steiner nonsense, supporting relationships and critical thinking: www.thegardenbristol.org
The Garden – Self-directed learning community I Deschooling & decolonising for regenerative futures I Bristol, UK I Est. 2016
www.thegardenbristol.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
@jonatack.bsky.social just getting around to listening to your two parter on Indoctrination. I would like to draw your attention to a UK education movement that is in line with your ideas - challenging Steiner nonsense, supporting relationships and critical thinking: www.thegardenbristol.org
I used to post this every year on Facebook but I've been away for almost a year now. It took me longer than I'd care to admit to give up searching the web so I had to log in again to get it. I don't miss it. Anyway, hope you enjoy my seasonal offering ... 🎄
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I used to post this every year on Facebook but I've been away for almost a year now. It took me longer than I'd care to admit to give up searching the web so I had to log in again to get it. I don't miss it. Anyway, hope you enjoy my seasonal offering ... 🎄
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If you want to help us make this game, or you just think what we're doing is cool and want to support us, you can now do that through Liberapay, an open source, non-profit platform that lets us receive regular, transparent donations.
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CREATURES LIKE US
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October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If you want to help us make this game, or you just think what we're doing is cool and want to support us, you can now do that through Liberapay, an open source, non-profit platform that lets us receive regular, transparent donations.
BE GAY DO ANARCHY!
liberapay.com/circleastudi...
BE GAY DO ANARCHY!
liberapay.com/circleastudi...
I’m sharing a stall with Circle-A on Sat, I’ll have books and information about a more relational and liberatory approach to education ✨
The Circle-A team will be at Bristol Anarchist Bookfair, which is 10.30am - 4.30pm on Saturday 1st November at the Elmgrove Centre. We'll have a demo you can play, as well as stickers and maybe some very special merch. Come an say hello!
bristolanarchistbookfair.uk
bristolanarchistbookfair.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’m sharing a stall with Circle-A on Sat, I’ll have books and information about a more relational and liberatory approach to education ✨
My first ever lino print ✨
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My first ever lino print ✨
Real learning is personally meaningful, contextualised and relational.
July 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Real learning is personally meaningful, contextualised and relational.
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society
July 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society
There’s nothing feminist about prioritising capitalism over your children ✨
July 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
There’s nothing feminist about prioritising capitalism over your children ✨
Can’t wait! ✨
📣 FREEDOM TO LEARN FORUM 2025 TICKETS
Join us for four glorious days of co-creation, curiosity and collective joy at a beautiful location in Hope Valley in the Peak District.
#freedomtolearn #freedomtolearn2025 #childrensrights #selfdirectededucation #unschooling #deschooling #decolonising
Join us for four glorious days of co-creation, curiosity and collective joy at a beautiful location in Hope Valley in the Peak District.
#freedomtolearn #freedomtolearn2025 #childrensrights #selfdirectededucation #unschooling #deschooling #decolonising
Freedom to Learn Forum 2025 - Open Collective
The Freedom to Learn Forum is an annual co-created gathering for anyone interested exploring social and environmental justice, through learning ecosystems.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Can’t wait! ✨
Children’s rights are a system change issue! I was commissioned by the Transformational Governance Collective to write this piece about What Adult’s Can Learn from Young People About Transformational Governance: medium.com/transformati...
What Adults Can Learn from Young People about Transformational Governance
Written by Artemis Bear
medium.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Children’s rights are a system change issue! I was commissioned by the Transformational Governance Collective to write this piece about What Adult’s Can Learn from Young People About Transformational Governance: medium.com/transformati...
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Open letter by Israeli academics.
“This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”
“This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”
May 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Open letter by Israeli academics.
“This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”
“This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”
“School co-opts and corrupts the idea of learning - actually limiting the opportunities elsewhere for real learning in young people’s lives.” School is a Crime Scene by The R.Y.S.E. 🔥
May 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“School co-opts and corrupts the idea of learning - actually limiting the opportunities elsewhere for real learning in young people’s lives.” School is a Crime Scene by The R.Y.S.E. 🔥
Just started running again but to make it more fun I’m going to make the title of each completed Strava activity a political message ✨
Follow me: strava.app.link/ygZtu1qqGTb
Follow me: strava.app.link/ygZtu1qqGTb
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May 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Just started running again but to make it more fun I’m going to make the title of each completed Strava activity a political message ✨
Follow me: strava.app.link/ygZtu1qqGTb
Follow me: strava.app.link/ygZtu1qqGTb
New book haul from Page of Swords radical book cafe at the Mazi Project in Bedminster this afternoon ✨
May 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New book haul from Page of Swords radical book cafe at the Mazi Project in Bedminster this afternoon ✨
Don’t believe the teachers - there’s nothing wrong with your child but school trauma! #abolishschools
May 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Don’t believe the teachers - there’s nothing wrong with your child but school trauma! #abolishschools
Standardised testing plus removal of social safety nets is a eugenics project. School is driving authoritarianism and making people think it is both necessary and inevitable.
May 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Standardised testing plus removal of social safety nets is a eugenics project. School is driving authoritarianism and making people think it is both necessary and inevitable.
“The education caregivers are convinced is necessary for a child to succeed is only necessary to perpetuate the trade economy.” @heathermarsh.bsky.social in Binding Chaos
Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨
Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨
May 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“The education caregivers are convinced is necessary for a child to succeed is only necessary to perpetuate the trade economy.” @heathermarsh.bsky.social in Binding Chaos
Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨
Schooling is the backbone of global capitalism ✨
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The last year and a half in Gaza is a strong enough reason to dismantle the entire US-led western empire. The Gaza holocaust could end tomorrow and it would still be reason enough. All the empire's other worldwide abuses could have never happened and it'd still be reason enough.
May 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The last year and a half in Gaza is a strong enough reason to dismantle the entire US-led western empire. The Gaza holocaust could end tomorrow and it would still be reason enough. All the empire's other worldwide abuses could have never happened and it'd still be reason enough.
“We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is motivated to see them for [their] education.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society
May 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is motivated to see them for [their] education.” Ivan Illich in Deschooling Society
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May 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fed up with the world being run by the worst people? Divest from their nonsense use cooperative and community owned alternatives like Fairbnb: fairbnb.coop
Schooling is a governance issue because that’s where we come to understand our culture. For most of us that’s where we learn that authoritarianism is the only possible “natural” way of organising and that people must be controlled for anything worthwhile to happen.
May 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Schooling is a governance issue because that’s where we come to understand our culture. For most of us that’s where we learn that authoritarianism is the only possible “natural” way of organising and that people must be controlled for anything worthwhile to happen.
What a great starter pack to be included in - thanks @charliealiceraya.bsky.social ✨
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May 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
What a great starter pack to be included in - thanks @charliealiceraya.bsky.social ✨
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My partner makes video games and they just launched a Steam page for their new game Creatures Like Us, about squatting. You should wish list it because it’s going to be very good! ✨
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Creatures Like Us on Steam
Creatures Like Us is a narrative life sim about squatting, solidarity and surviving capitalism together. Follow a group of friends as they make homes in abandoned buildings. They forage, fix stuff, ho...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My partner makes video games and they just launched a Steam page for their new game Creatures Like Us, about squatting. You should wish list it because it’s going to be very good! ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/3471580/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3471580/...
How will young people learn about the things they don’t find easy or interesting? Ha! They ask for it. This group of 10-14 year olds asked me to plan a geometry session for them BECAUSE they don’t like it. They do algebra, for example, on their own for fun. Self-directed education FTW!
April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How will young people learn about the things they don’t find easy or interesting? Ha! They ask for it. This group of 10-14 year olds asked me to plan a geometry session for them BECAUSE they don’t like it. They do algebra, for example, on their own for fun. Self-directed education FTW!
Today my teenager got up when she was rested, tidied her room, independently studied what she felt was necessary for her chosen path, cooked when she was hungry, went to the loo as needed, hung out with friend, read a book with me in a shady hammock. Life without school is infinitely better.
April 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Today my teenager got up when she was rested, tidied her room, independently studied what she felt was necessary for her chosen path, cooked when she was hungry, went to the loo as needed, hung out with friend, read a book with me in a shady hammock. Life without school is infinitely better.