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Letter to Obama: A Call for Teaching Feminism in K-12 Classrooms
Emily Heroy’s post at Equality 101 about the call to teach feminism in high schools in the US reminds me of an assignment I gave to students last year in my course on feminism to high school juniors...
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Feministing Blogger Miriam Pérez Visits My LGBT Literature Class
Activist, blogger, and doula Miriam Zoila Pérez. (photo by Ileana Jiménez) “Our society is so intensely gendered in ways we don’t even notice.” Wise words from Miriam Zoila Pérez who visited my Queer...
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New Series on the Impact of Teaching and Learning Feminism(s) in High School
This week I am launching an ongoing series of guest posts from former students reflecting on their experience of learning feminism(s) in high school. The inspiration for this series came from my...
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Guest Post: From Little Red to Big Red: Becoming a Feminist in High School,...
Jenilssa Holguin After being at LREI for four years, speaking about diversity and feminism became second nature to me. The classes that I took–such as Fierce and Fabulous: Feminist Women Writers,...
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Guest Post: Sex+Gender: Reading Dangerous Language in High School
“My name is Lola Lorber, I’m a freshman, and my preferred gender pronouns are she, her, and hers.” Lola Lorber This is how we introduce ourselves on the first few days of classes at Oberlin College. To...
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Guest Post: Learning Feminism in High School Led to My College Choice
Alexandra Garza My name is Alexandra Garza and I was a student of Ileana Jiménez’s at Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI). Before I was a student and now friend of Ileana’s, I had only known her...
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Summer of Feminista: Finding My Latina Feminism
Want to know the story of how I became a feminist? Fellow feminist Latina blogger at Viva La Feminista, Veronica Arreola, is hosting an amazing series of guest posts this summer by Latinas and their...
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Feminist Teacher Celebrates First Year Blogging
This weekend I’m celebrating the first year of founding and blogging at Feminist Teacher. When I created this blog, my goal was to carve out a space to share my work as a feminist high school teacher...
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Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action
The following post was originally published at On the Issues. The students in my feminism class read Rachel Lloyd's memoir, Girls Like Us, about the commercial sexual exploitation of children. (Photo,...
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Spoke at Barnard Center for Research on Women: Activism and the Academy (VIDEO)
Earlier this school year, the Barnard Center for Research on Women celebrated its fortieth anniversary by holding a conference titled Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Scholarship and...
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