Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

Edited by Carla Joy Bergman & Dani Burlison

Children are often expected to fit into systems built without them. Trust Kids! turns that idea on its head. Through essays, interviews, stories, and artwork, this collection explores what becomes possible when young people are treated as capable, thoughtful human beings rather than problems to manage. Contributors challenge adult supremacy and imagine relationships rooted in trust, consent, mutual respect, and genuine autonomy.

Drawing from education, parenting, activism, and lived experience, this is a thoughtful, radical collection that asks us to reconsider what childhood could look like if children were given the freedom to grow on their own terms.

Publisher: AK Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781849353854