Your weekly TT newsletter, with resources on affirming LGBTQ+ youth after the “Bostock” decision, and how to stop weaponizing whiteness.
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October 13, 2020
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** Celebrate Intersectional LGBTQ History This Month!
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October is LGBTQ+ History Month. We hope these resources ([link removed]) will help you and your students as you celebrate the diverse identities, experiences and histories of LGBTQ activists—and the continuing fight for LGBTQ equality.
This Conversation Is Anti-Racist // Monita K. Bell ([link removed])
Schools as Sanctuary // Cory Collins ([link removed])
History Moves With Us // Charles E. Cobb Jr. and Hasan Kwame Jeffries ([link removed])
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Learn and Teach Indigenous History Year-round
Indigenous Peoples’ Day was Monday, but it is important to commit to teaching the truth about Indigenous history and the experiences of Indigenous peoples year-round. Use these resources ([link removed]) —including guidance from Native parents and an interview with Ed Schupman of the National Museum of the American Indian—to learn more.
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** The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools
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Studies show that when educators perceive challenges to their power, they disproportionately view Black students as the source. In the Fall 2020 issue of
Teaching Tolerance magazine, Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard writes about why it’s time ([link removed]) to recognize the pattern of educators weaponizing their whiteness in schools and put a stop to it.
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** Japanese American Incarceration Is U.S. History
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The full story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II echoes in present-day injustices, but it continues to be left out of history curricula. TT’s Cory Collins details a new project from the National Veterans Network and the Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center that can help. Learn more ([link removed]) about these stories and why they must be told.
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** Affirm LGBTQ Youth after Bostock v. Clayton County
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This summer, in
Bostock v. Clayton County, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employment discrimination due to someone’s sexual orientation or their gender identity is unconstitutional. But educator Cody Miller reminds us that this legal protection is not the same as affirmation. Read more ([link removed]) on how to affirm and fight for your LGBTQ students now.
** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“If the police are threatened by Blackness more broadly, this signals the impossibility of a protective relationship between the police as a structure and Black people as human beings.” — Medium ([link removed])
“With everything [Navajo Nation residents] have gone through this year, I just want to make sure they have an opportunity to cast their vote.” — The Guardian ([link removed])
“If these trends continue, many of our districts will need to make adjustments in the short term even as they plan for booming kindergarten and first grade classes next year.” — National Public Radio ([link removed])
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