The Politics of Young People

Alex Castellanos: I think one of the interesting opportunities we have in reflecting on young people as political actors is to contemplate the idea that things may already be unfolding differently, but they're not being recognized in any formal sense. We've seen this time and time again that when young people actually engage in movement work and organize and become political actors, that they're often very carefully scrubbed out of the official narrative. He says it's because depoliticizing children facilitates all sorts of structures of domination and power imbalances.Castellanos: If we don't necessarily care how much about you know like I mean, I'm a politics reporter but I care about politics says like lower