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History teaches something new every time it is rewritten or interpreted....

– Michael Bronski Bronski, M. (2011). A queer history of the United States. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. p. xx.

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Zero tolerance policy compels school to punish upstander

This post is the first of a series on zero tolerance and anti-bullying policy. Part 1 (below) reports ongoing events in a Florida school wherein a student has been suspended after intervening in an...

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AERA 2014: Session schedule

There were a handful of wonderful sessions on bullying, discipline in schools, and queer identity politics during this year’s AERA convention. Here are a few which I attended, and which are definitely...

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The Ohio School Board’s ongoing debates on whether they want to protect...

“I was not fired because I was gay. I was not fired because I was a lesbian. I was fired because there were questions about my sexual orientation. That’s scary … you can be fired because someone thinks...

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One need only learn how to be equal men in an unequal society. This is what...

– Jacques Ranciere Ranciere, J. (1991). The ignorant schoolmaster: Five lessons in intellectual emancipation. (K. Ross, Trans.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 133.

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US Department of Education clarifies that Title IX is inclusive of gender...

The US Department of Education released a guidance document clarifying how it will be interpreting some of Title IX’s protections as they relate to trans* persons in schools. They’re speaking...

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The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honor gay kids may depend...

– Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Sedgwick, E.K. (1990). Epistemology of the closet. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 42

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Trans lives matter – inside and outside of schools

Sabrina Rubin Erdely over at Rolling Stone has just published another investigative article into the lived experiences of queer persons in Minnesota. Her new piece (here) recounts CeCe McDonald’s...

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J. Jack Halberstam on Queer Theory

https://ia802502.us.archive.org/27/items/HalberstamQueerTheory-AnkaraTurkey/Halberstam-QueerTheory-Turkiye.mp3  (audio here) Halberstam spoke on Queer Theory (QT) — and the importance of...

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By insisting that queerness does have a place in schools, queer politics...

– Claudia W. Ruitenberg Ruitenberg, C.W. (2010). Queer politics in schools: A Ranciérean reading. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42(5-6), 618-634.

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Montana is the only state without an anti-bullying law … and that might...

UPDATE: Post 1 of 2. I share the hearing itself in a follow-up post. 49 of America’s 50 states have laws on their books requiring school districts, and sometimes individual schools themselves, to...

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Anti-bullying provision introduced to 114th Congress

Yet again, a Senate bill has been filed proposing an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) “to take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students” (p. 1; S. 311). It...

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Montana hears support and opposition on possible anti-bullying law

Post 2 of 2 – an update on Montana’s debate on a new anti-bullying bill. See my previous post on the bill itself. Montana’s Education Committee hearing on a possible anti-bullying law (H.B. 284) went...

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Inconsistent definitions of bullying pose challenges in Kentucky schools

This is 1 of 2 in a short series of posts on WKYT’s reporting of Kentucky schools working to address bullying. Addressing bullying in schools is no easy task for educators. Inconsistent definitions of...

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On the time limitations faced by Kentucky educators addressing bullying

This is 2 of 2 in a short series of posts on WKYT’s reporting of Kentucky schools working to address bullying. The prior post provided a little context to the difficulties inconsistent definitions of...

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Oregon has sworn in America’s first bisexual governor … so here’s some...

The first openly bisexual politician, Kate Brown, was sworn in as Oregon’s governor this week (here; here). While Brown is not the only out bisexual in American politics, she is currently the highest...

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Academic workflow: My tagging scheme

Articles, book chapters, reports, and news articles have a way of accumulating “like whoa” in academia. With so many files to manage, a functional and flexible tagging system makes all the difference...

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A growing database of worthwhile queer young adult fiction

One of the challenges in teaching about gender and sexual identities is that students are afraid to discuss them outside of heteronormative binaries — straight men or women. This is especially true for...

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Four bills on bullying that Congress is just sitting on

The US Congress presently has four bills that include bullying and schools awaiting action. As of this writing, every one is languishing awaiting committee review — which is a prerequisite for getting...

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Michel Foucault on a Culture of the Self

I stumbled onto a right-cool recording of Foucault’s lecture at UC Berkeley on “The Culture of the Self” from back in April of 1983. Our current “politics of self” are grounded in the idea that there...

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