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Stella & Jess: Gender Diversity at School

30/11/2018

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This week we’re highlighting one of the videos from our interview with Stella and Jess from the Skinner Family. Stella and Jess talk about wanting schools to have a place for discussions about gender and gender identity. By anticipating having students in your class who are not cisgender, Jess notes that we can be more inclusive of everyone. Jess brings up an excellent point: by focusing less on accommodating our trans and gender non-conforming students, and instead anticipating them in our school environments, we can shift the narrative from accommodation to celebration. Check out the rest of the videos with Stella and Jess here! (Yasmin Owis) 
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Dale—Working with the Gender Sexuality Alliance at School

19/11/2018

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In this video clip, Dale talks about his involvement with his school’s GSA, what they refer to as their Gender Sexuality Alliance. What I find inspiring is that Dale and his GSA peers and friends take the initiative to make their school a more welcoming place by getting involved in the kinds of school clubs that work to meet students’ needs. I like how he says that he didn’t necessarily believe that their school needed a GSA because, presumably, he sees his school as an accepting place. Yet, he makes the point that “you can’t do nothing” in terms of continuing to work to improve school spaces so that all students and staff feel welcome and accepted. Dale talks about the importance of the GSA as a positive space where students can hang out and talk about the issues they are interested in; work at increasing LGBTQ+ visibility; and continue addressing the needs of LGBTQ+ students, by, for example, campaigning for a multi-stall gender-neutral washroom in the school. (Kate Reid)
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Kevin and Mohan: Some Challenges of Having an Intersectional Identity

9/11/2018

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In this video, Mohan talks about some of the challenges he experienced growing up in the East-end, mostly-white suburbs of Scarborough in the 1970s as the multi-racial child of immigrants in a multi-faith household (+ a school system that did not correspond to either of his parents’ religious backgrounds). When asked about his hopes for his young children as they move through the public school system today, Mohan explains:  
 
“…I don’t mind them being treated differently.
I don’t want them to be treated unkindly…”
​(benjamin lee hicks)
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Nicole & Mita: Curriculum and Indigenous and Mixed-Race Students and Families

5/11/2018

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Today I want to feature a video clip from Nicole Tanguay and Mita Hans’ interview. In the clip, Nicole talks about an Indigenous dance her daughter’s class was doing at school.  The dance was supposed to be a circle dance or a round dance but “it was awful how it turned out because … [the kids] were being pretty, like, racist … doing the war dance thing [they’d seen on television].”  
 
In response to Nicole’s story, Mita Hans says, “And this is where you hope that the teacher would have stepped in and said, ‘Well, actually this is how people do what they do and it’s not appropriate for everybody to do what they do and sometimes it’s really inappropriate when somebody who’s not from that culture does that.’”   
 
Recently, I listened to an episode of a podcast called Code Switch which speaks to Mita’s expectations of the teacher who was responsible for bringing the round dance into the classroom. The episode was called “Ask Code Switch: School Daze”.  A white teacher asked Code Switch whether or not she should be teaching her black students a South African dance called the Gum Boot dance.  The answers to her question pick up on Mita’s concern about who should teach the round dance.  To listen to “School Daze” on Code Switch follow the link below. (Tara Goldstein)
Code Switch Podcast
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