This introduction frames the collection of essays, “Vulnerability, Innocence and Futurity: Essays on Contemporary Politics of Childhood.” This collection centers children who unsettle the dominant cultural imaginaries of childhood by examining cultural politics surrounding the adoption of Indigenous children in Canada, the incarceration of children deemed terrorists in Egypt and migration of children at the US-Mexico border as well as the protests against “gender ideology” in France and children at the forefront of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Rather than reclaiming innocence and demanding protection for all children, this introduction invites the readers to alternative imaginaries of childhood and its politics,