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I find the language that the straight folks in my program use to talk about queer folks pretty interesting, because its so different from the kind of language I’m used to hearing queer folks use to describe themselves. Case in point: the idea of “sexual confusion.” Someone thought that I must be “confused” about my [...]
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The discussions about social justice in my tutorial have been getting pretty heated. People are getting downright emotional. Things are getting seriously personal. Nobody feels quite comfortable. And it must be interfering with the educative process. Enter my tutorial instructor with the rational solution – a presentation on dialogue (or rather, on how to conduct [...]
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End-of-course evaluations are a common practice at any university. They mostly involve responding to a series of questions by shading in a box. I filled out one such form today and the first question asked me to indicate my sex by shading in either the box for male or the box for female. I’ve been [...]
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A look at how one balances one’s own needs with the need to change the world.
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Here’s what happened the day one of my fellow classmates asked me to defend “my gay agenda.”
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Here’s what I did when one kid called another kid ‘a fag’ on the playground of my practicum school.
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A look at the heterosexist pitfalls of teaching and learning dance in elementary schools.
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