Introducing the text and examining the emergence, maintenance, and expansion of gaps, deficits, and risks through early childhood policy / Christopher P. Brown -- Dismantling racialized discourses in early childhood education and care : a revolution towards reframing the field / Michelle Salazar Pérez -- Pláticas on disrupting language ideologies in the borderlands / Cinthya M. Saavedra and J. Joy Esquierdo -- Rejecting deficit views of children in poverty in favor of a philosophy of abundance / Curt Dudley-Marling -- A capability-oriented lens : reframing the early years education of children with disabilities / Maryam Dalkilic -- Fighting for the unity of care and education in early childhood : understanding and disrupting challenges to professional knowledge and action / Patricia M. Cooper -- Disrupting standardized early education through culturally sustaining pedagogies with young children / Ranita Cheruvu -- Deconstructing child rights in special educational needs : representations of deficit and development in educational psychology / Laura Goodfellow and Erica Burman -- More-than-human kinship relations within indigenous children's picture books / Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Meagan Montpetit -- Listening to and telling a rush of unruly natureculture gender stories / Mindy Blaise and Tonya Rooney -- Disrupting racial capitalist formations in early childhood education / Fikile Nxumalo.