Today’s guest post comes from Mandy Van Deven. Mandy is a progressive activist, co-author of Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets and editor The Scholar & Feminist Online’s “Polyphonic Feminisms: Acting… Read more ›
Today is the National Day of Silence during which students who choose to do so will remain silent all day to draw attention to anti-LGBTQ name calling, harassment, bullying, and violence in schools. Today, many of my own high school… Read more ›
I had the good fortune to attend and present at the Connections Conference last week. The awesome thing about presenting at conferences like these is that my registration fee is paid and I get to attend all sorts of great… Read more ›
I can’t even tell you how good it is to be typing this right now. I’m really excited to be back! I waited for a few days and, seeing no more spam links, I devoted some time to getting rid… Read more ›
I’ve posted some posts here, but, let’s face it, I haven’t really blogged on here in almost a month. Many of you have asked what I’ve been up to, and have told me that you miss my blogging and feel… Read more ›
Apparently, I am the resident expert in feminism in my school. This doesn’t necessarily surprise me, though I do think many of the young teachers here fall somewhere on the feminist spectrum. However, as the one who A) wrote her master’s… Read more ›
According to a recent article from the Ms. Magazine Blog, parents, teachers, police, and other adults in charge of discipline are more likely to punish the victims of bullying rather than the bullies when it comes to LGBTQ youth. Thus,… Read more ›
I have spent some time recently working in collaboration with several people who are not teachers to develop activities, projects, assignments, and unit plans for my classes. These experiences are both essential to good curriculum planning and so frustrating that… Read more ›
The cameras missed the outside murders and could not follow Eric and Dylan inside. The fundamental experience for most of America was almost witnessing mass murder. It was the panic and frustration of not knowing, the mounting terror of horror… Read more ›
I started reading Columbine by Dave Cullen (book #4 in my 30 Before 30 challengeyesterday and made it through a third of the book in a nonstop reading session. At that point, I physically had plenty of time to read more,… Read more ›
We’ve all done it: felt the ache of sickness coming on in the early morning hours and forced ourselves out of bed and into our classrooms despite knowing that it’ll only get worse througout the day. We alter assignments so… Read more ›
In the future of America, after the Heartland War, abortion is made illegal. The Heartland War, after all, was not a war involving any military, but was a war between the pro-choice and pro-life forces in America. The war got… Read more ›
A little while ago, I began reading some of the blogs of the bloggers who had participated in the Mighty Summit retreat. If you haven’t seen this page, check it out; it’s pretty cool. These women make life lists of… Read more ›
Fighting homophobia and fighting homophobic language are two different things. Often overlapping, yes, but different. When one fights homophobia and homophobic language, one is fighting power structures that are in place. Let’s use the word “gay” as a running example,… Read more ›
I knew I wanted to be a teacher ever since my senior year in high school. I was fortunate to have many amazing teachers throughout my high school experience, but there was one teacher whose passion for his students inspired… Read more ›
I knew I wanted to be a teacher ever since my senior year in high school. I was fortunate to have many amazing teachers throughout my high school experience, but there was one teacher whose passion for his students inspired… Read more ›
Well, I am. I’ve never been very good at it, actually. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I don’t necessarily “believe” in grades. I believe in them enough that I really wanted to get A’s in high school and… Read more ›
Today’s post is a video tutorial that I created to show you, in 5 minutes, the benefits of including blogging in your classroom. Personally, I have been unable to include blogging in my classroom this year because of many reasons,… Read more ›
Right now, I am in the midst of teaching Anthem by Ayn Rand. It isn’t the most feminist of texts (read: not feminist at all), nor does it deal with issues of race or LGBTQ or anything like that. In… Read more ›
Equality 101 is looking for some new contributing writers, and we’re keeping the call for applications open! If you’re interested, check out our guidelines, then submit the following to staff@equality101.net: Your name Which position you are interested in (post-secondary or… Read more ›