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English 10 handout from Memorial High School (2020-21), Unit 3 'Personal Narratives': notes analysing a painting of the Stonewall riots, above a passage thanking students from 'any marginalized community' for their 'strength and resilience'. English 10 fill-in-the-blank student notes on gender stereotypes, patriarchy, 'hegemonic masculinity', sexism, and the Bechdel Test. English 10 notetaking worksheet titled 'Gender, Gender Identity, & Sexual Orientation', filled in by a student with answers on assigned sex, gender as a social construct, and intersex conditions. Later pages of the same English 10 packet, handwritten by a student: sections on intersex traits, gender identity, transgender and cisgender definitions, and personal pronouns. 'Privilege / oppression-resistance' wheel graphic sorting identity traits — white, male, cisgender, heterosexual on the privilege half; transgender, disabled, poor, person of colour on the oppression half. Zoom screen-share from a staff training showing an 'Intersecting Axes of Privilege, Domination, and Oppression' chart beside the presenter's own 'My Identities' list (race, gender, class, religion, ability, age). Collage artwork of a burning 'Contract Binding You to Whiteness', listing 'stolen land, stolen riches, special favors' in exchange for 'your soul'. Classroom slide 'Independent Reflection Part 2' with a three-minute timer, asking students: 'Does that part of your identity have privilege or oppression attached to it?' Presentation slide on 'Oppressed vs. oppressor / privilege framing', showing an intersectionality lesson labelled as having been shown to third-graders at Meyerholz Elementary in Cupertino, California. Zoom screen-share of a staff training slide, 'Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture', listing perfectionism, objectivity, individualism, and 'worship of the written word', credited to Okun and Jones' Dismantling Racism Workbook (2001). Annotated newspaper graphic breaking down a New York City schools chancellor's training slide, which lists fourteen traits of 'white supremacy culture' with an explanation of each. Training handout, 'Some Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture in the United States', tabulating rugged individualism, competition, the Protestant work ethic, and the nuclear family as white cultural traits. Smithsonian NMAAHC 'Talking About Race' infographic, 'Aspects & Assumptions of Whiteness & White Culture in the United States', listing the same traits with illustrations. Email to students announcing a district Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 'healing space' for Asian and BIPOC students, with a note that it is 'not for students who identify only as White'. Letter from Moses Brown School to upper school families describing race-separated 'affinity group' sessions, with framing 'appropriate for the BIPOC or White-identifying experience'. Presentation slide listing separate goals for children in a race-based affinity group and children in an advocacy group, including to 'raise awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege'. Article header from an education site: 'How to Implement Critical Pedagogy Into Your Classroom' by Matthew Lynch. Body text from that article defining critical pedagogy as a teaching philosophy that invites educators to encourage students to critique structures of power and oppression. Step five of the same article, 'Encourage activism', advising teachers to point students toward marches, demonstrations, and organisations where they can 'combat oppression'. Learning for Justice magazine feature, 'Toolkit for “Why Talk About Whiteness?”', offering nine steps to guide high school students through The Whiteness Project. 'Before Viewing' instructions from that same Learning for Justice toolkit, directing teachers to project 'Inside the White/Caucasian Box' for students. A stack of classroom copies of 'Antiracist Baby' by Ibram X. Kendi. Student worksheet, 'LGBTQ+ Vocab Matching Activity', pairing definitions with terms including intersex, pansexual, cisgender, and questioning. Blank 'Gender Support Plan (Confidential)' form covering what name and pronouns will be used in letters home and calls from teachers, plus restrooms, changing areas, and overnight-trip rooming. Classroom bulletin board defining around twenty sexual orientation and gender identity terms, including demisexual, polysexual, demiboy, and androsexual. Pages from a sex-education book found in a school, including a 'What are kinks, fantasies, and porn?' spread; the explicit illustrations are blurred in this screenshot. Classroom projector slide teaching pronoun sets, with the they/them and ze/zir columns circled in red, instructing students to 'rewrite the tenses in your own sentences to practice'. Student project display board in a classroom headed 'Defund the Police?', with handwritten panels and sourced clippings. Summer-study slide, 'Module 5: Being an LGBTQIAP+ Advocate', assigning students to design a flag, poster, or schoolwide event promoting the LGBTQ+ community. Social media post from a school principal showing a newly decorated office with a Progress Pride flag and a Black Lives Matter flag on the wall. A teacher's post thanking a donor for classroom-library picture books, showing copies of 'Tuesday Is Daddy's Day' and 'My Rainbow'. Advocacy organisation post arguing schools should never disclose a student's LGBTQ+ status to parents, with a graphic answering 'Should Schools Out LGBTQ+ Students to Parents?' with 'NEVER!' School district library catalogue results showing the graphic novel 'Flamer' held at multiple middle schools and high schools, most copies available. Panels from the graphic novel 'Flamer', containing sexual content and profanity, as found in school libraries. A teacher's post describing a pride lesson for kindergarten and grade one students, with photos of young children painting rainbow crafts. Slide from the American School Counselor Association's 2022 annual conference asking 'What does it mean to be White?', citing Mahoney and DiAngelo. A teacher's post sharing classroom decoration ideas after a colleague was asked to remove a pride flag, showing a 'Proud Teacher' banner and an LGBTQ figures bulletin board. Local news article headlined 'Columbia school board accepts grant for gender-affirming closet', pictured with Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. School hallway bulletin board explaining the LGBTQ+ acronym and related identity terms, with profiles of notable LGBTQ figures. Classroom handout, 'Questions for Exploring Sexual Orientation' — a heterosexuality questionnaire asking students 'What causes heterosexuality?' and 'When did you choose your sexual orientation?' Photograph of a school staff member at their desk; the wall behind holds a Black Lives Matter flag and pride-themed posters. Training handout, 'Oppression Matrix', a table sorting groups into privileged, border, and oppressed social categories across racism, sexism, classism, and ableism. Training handout dividing 'overt white supremacy' (socially unacceptable) from 'covert white supremacy' (socially acceptable), the latter listing colourblindness, tokenism, and 'All Lives Matter'. Graphic, 'The 8 White Identities' by Barnor Hesse, a scale running from 'White Supremacist' through 'White Privilege' to 'White Abolitionist'. Text version of 'The 8 White Identities', defining each category from 'White Supremacist' to 'White Abolitionist'. Pyramid graphic separating 'overt white supremacy' from 'covert white supremacy', placing colourblindness, 'Make America Great Again', and 'All Lives Matter' on the same pyramid as lynching and the KKK. 'Becoming Anti-Racist' diagram mapping a Fear Zone, Learning Zone, and Growth Zone, ending at 'I yield positions of power to those otherwise marginalized'. School district draft document applying Paulo Freire's 'critical consciousness' sequence and tabulating Critical Race Theory themes from Solórzano, Delgado and Stefancic for board policy development. Second page of that district document: an equity pillars table for staff, students, families, and community, above a cabinet and board reading list including Critical Race Theory and 'Critical Whiteness Studies'. Third page of that district document, listing anti-racist action items for staff, students, and families, including race-based 'affinity spaces' and 'White Identity Development'. Teacher-facing notes for a third-to-fifth grade slide deck on identity, culture, race, racism, and 'racial justice & action', culminating in students creating a 'culture bag'. Welcome slide from a staff training titled 'Internalized Racial Superiority for white people', asking attendees to share their name, pronouns, department, and when they first noticed racial differences. Lesson plan mapping New York social studies standards to the Black Lives Matter guiding principles, followed by a vocabulary list defining antiracist, punitive, riots, and 'socialist movement'. Lesson plan steps on riots and protests, instructing teachers to explain 'agent provocateurs' and closing with an exit ticket asking students how the lesson changed their perspective. Curriculum passage headed 'The School-to-Grave Pipeline', describing 'social justice educators' and the school-to-prison pipeline. Lesson plan vocabulary page listing the thirteen principles of the Black Lives Matter movement, including 'Transgender Affirming' and 'Queer Affirming'. Child-facing definitions from the same lesson plan, including 'Black Villages' as 'the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics' and a note that everyone 'gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither'. Conference session slide, 'Decolonizing White Supremacy Culture Thinking', reframing objectivity, individualism, and 'fear of open conflict' as colonial ideologies. Ethnic studies slide, 'Intro to ES Reoccurring Themes and Concepts', covering intersectionality, hegemony, and praxis with citations to Crenshaw, Gramsci, Freire, and Fanon. Stockton Unified School District ethnic studies program key-content grid, with 'White Supremacy' entries and 'Murders of Black People by The Police' highlighted. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum lesson for grades three to six, 'How Does Normalization Dehumanize?', critiquing white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and 'cisheteropatriarchy'. Course assessment rubric with four levels of mastery, from students identifying 'the tenets of Critical Race Theory' to critically analysing institutions using them. Middle school library catalogue entry for 'Flamer' (interest level: Young Adult), shown alongside panels from the book. Handout from the 'Middle School FLASH' curriculum listing identity definitions for a lesson on sexual orientation and gender identity. Pages from 'It's Perfectly Normal' as found in a school, with illustrations of masturbation and intercourse; genitals are redacted in this screenshot. Letter to first-grade families about 'PRIDE +1 Love Day' cards on February 14th, asking parents to avoid cards that 'portray only White human characters'. Elementary school post about a fifth-grade read-aloud, shown with pages from a picture book in which a child tells their mother 'I AM a boy'. Three classroom photographs: a Black Lives Matter flag beside a photo wall, a bisexual pride flag during class, and a poster reading 'White privilege doesn't mean your life hasn't been hard'. A teacher's post about teaching young students the meaning of the Pride flag, with a photograph of children holding hand-coloured pride and transgender flags. Composite of explicit pages from four books found in school libraries — Gender Queer, This Book Is Gay, Flamer, and Let's Talk About It. Classroom chart paper reading 'What are some forms of “creative trouble” or activism we have seen this year?', with student answers including patches, pins, and dropping flyers. An elementary classroom in session, the teacher standing at that 'creative trouble' activism chart with students seated in front of her. Classroom stocked with class sets of 'The Black Panther Party', 'Wake', and 'March', beneath Black Panther Party, Palestinian, Black Lives Matter, and Progress Pride flags. School stairwell painted as a Progress Pride flag, with the intersex symbol at the top of the steps. School stairwell painted with 'Black Lives Matter' and a raised fist across the risers. Staff handout posted in a school, 'Pronoun Tips', advising never to assume someone's pronouns and how to respond when corrected. 'Black Sanctuary Pledge' asking Madison Metropolitan School District educators to pledge not to call police, ICE, or Homeland Security on children. Classroom wall displaying a raised-fist flag, an indigenous peoples poster, and a Progress Pride flag above the students' desks. 'About Me' student survey asking students to circle their pronouns from he/him, she/her, or they/them; the student's name is redacted. District 'Human Growth and Development Elementary Required Resources' table listing required gender identity videos and a 'Sex Assigned At Birth' section. School commons area with Black Lives Matter, rainbow pride, and transgender pride flags hanging from the balcony rail. Elementary art activity card, 'Station 6', instructing students to colour stripes according to their gender: female, male, or gender neutral.

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