Education News | Page 11 it back from legal establishments that want to criminalize us . Black people , Indigenous people , and people of colour continually have to assert their identities , value , being in the face of white supremacy and colonialism . Work I did a decade ago , that I felt great about then , now feels inadequate , and this work has to be constantly revisited and made better .
Fred Moten ( 2016 ), a Black thinker and philosopher I feel inspired by , when asked about the work of Black people said , “ I love all the beautiful stuff we ’ ve made under constraint , but I ’ m pretty sure I would love all the beautiful things we ’ d make out from under constraint better .” 2 Similarly , I think our culture has not yet seen what 2SLGBTQA + people would do if we got to experience love and freedom . I want to get to see that . This drives my work .
It ' s hard to write about successes at a time of push back and resistance . We ' re experiencing more public transphobia , particularly directed towards trans women and trans femmes . Bathroom bans , bathroom violence , push back against Drag Queen Story Hours , barriers to participation in sports are about keeping trans people out of public life — they are about making trans lives unlivable . And that does not include challenges in accessing appropriate medical care , barriers to getting accurate ID , ways trans people experience violence and discrimination in housing , employment , and other spheres . I want to create the conditions where trans people can thrive , where all people have access to language about gender diversity , where there is freedom and where people are valued . We are so far from there .
And , there is more access to language . Some provinces , school boards and schools have policy . We see moments of queering and transing curriculum . For a long time , work in education has been about accommodating individuals , and teachers can be really good at this — I ' m very interested in dismantling the systems of oppression — the ways that sexism , cissexism , transphobia , and homophobia ( along with colonialism , racism , ableism , and classism ) shape our society and schools .
Jacq : Over the past decade , I ' ve seen schools and school districts make huge strides towards 2SLGBTQ + inclusion in their schools . Many school-wide GSAs are thriving , including elementary school GSAs , and regular celebratation of Pride month . This is huge . It has become significantly easier for 2SLGBTQ +
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The Black Outdoors : Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman . Black Outdoors : Humanities Futures After Property and Possession . Franklin Humanities Institute . https :// fhi . duke . edu / videos / black-outdoors-fred-moten-saidiya-hartman