I really appreciate the way this article offers a granular exploration of the various forces of power that have coalesced around this issue...in spite of the fact that they share vary few common values or alignments, they have all deemed it opportune to band together to try to gatekeep any normalization or inclusion of an small and marginalized group of people...all for daring to threaten their shared core tenet of binary gender.

I can't believe this is happening! It took a very long time for the 1940s Declaration of Human Rights to really make its way into international policy, and to see elements being overtly repealed makes me sad and angry. Rights are fragile things, as we seem to be learning in so many aspects of society.

It really is amazing that humans managed to agree long enough to create the commons of the open web

hello! just editing my "test" comment to add a little about the term I highlighted...I recognize that the Leadership FOS group in this cohort is quite small (and we will talk about our fields and areas of research interest soon: had it on the menu for today but we had that much deeper circle conversation, which I remain grateful for) ...BUT I think a leadership lens on representation is always of value as educational researchers often end up in leadership conversations, or lead decisions about who gets included in X research project. So no matter your field of study, thinking about the ways queer identities - which can be defined by sexual orientation, gender identity, or other fluid, "non-normative" orientations to embodiment - often have to fight for equitable treatment or simply visibility can be of value...and key to building a reflexive practice as a researcher.

I recognize that the Leadership FOS group in this cohort is quite small (and we will talk about our fields and areas of research interest soon: had it on the menu for today but we had that much deeper circle conversation, which I remain grateful for) …BUT I think a leadership lens on representation is always of value as educational researchers often end up in leadership conversations, or lead decisions about who gets included in X research project. Hence these two articles, one on racial representation and one on queer representation...no matter your fields of study, thinking about the ways axes of identity shape access to educational experiences is part of building the transformative and reflexive practice this paper calls for :)

I feel like the author is making some assumptions about what kinds of jobs CTE prepares people for, and I am curious whether his perspective aligns with many of yours.

hi Darren - testing testing. :)

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The first time I watched this, this was the statement that jarred me and included me and made it so I couldn't look away or pretend this wasn't about me.

What do we think these capacities might be?

bingo!

there is an extraordinary amount of poorly-designed educational research out there, and when that research aligns with cultural biases that make for big viral media, cultural narratives emerge that can be difficult to dig into. that's part of what we were hoping to unpack with this article.