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We will continue publishing blogs with more ideas in the upcoming months. Our committee has written multiple blog posts on pedagogical and curricular suggestions for affirming LGBTQ youth during 2019. These tweets speak to the progress we still have to make as a profession. Unfortunately, the same Twitter search I mentioned earlier also provides examples of English teachers using their position to harm and marginalize LGBTQ youth. These questions do represent beginning steps for teachers who want to live up to the ideals of the meme.īy no means do I want to suggest that the meme is representative of all English teachers. The work to transform schools into affirming spaces for LGBTQ youth, educators, and communities is multifaceted work that involves curriculum, pedagogy, policy, standards, hiring processes, and other aspects of schools. These questions are by no means exhaustive.
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#Youre so gay meme professional#
Professional learning titles like Reading the Rainbow: LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom by Caitlin Ryan and Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, Beyond Borders: Queer Eros and Ethos (Ethics) in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature edited by Darla Linville and David Lee Carlson, Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework by sj Miller, and Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy by Kevin Kumashiro would make for important additions to English teachers’ professional reading libraries. Teachers also need to read and learn from queer writers. Equally important is to consider how you’re learning to teach those titles.
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The message behind the meme transcends the specific popular cultural texts used to construct the meme.
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A search on Twitter with the words “gay” and “English teacher” will provide the depth of the meme’s reach. While not an official name, I refer to the collection of memes as the “English teachers support queer youth” genre.Įxamples of the meme are abundant: screenshots from video games, promotional photos from actors, stills from reality shows, celebrity pictures at political events, stock images of bespectacled readers, and the list goes on. In the past few years I’ve noticed a warming (and often humorous) trend on social media: Queer youth creating memes that speak to the ways their English teachers supported, affirmed, and loved them. This blog post was written by Cody Miller, Chair of the NCTE LGBTQ Advisory Committee.