Monday, April 20

Culture

What Hutt Valley High School is teaching kids about sex
Culture

What Hutt Valley High School is teaching kids about sex

The gender unicorn – slide from Hutt Valley High School’s Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) lessons: Who am I? Diverse Gender & Sexual IdentitiesThis New Zealand school hosts a club for sharing advice on breast binding and cross-sex hormones. Hutt Valley High School didn’t want parents to see the classroom materials that I’m about to […]

Lamentations of a weeping scholar
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Lamentations of a weeping scholar

I weep for my profession, once noble and grand, Institutions crumbling, like castles in sand. My heart breaks for colleagues, their careers laid to rest, Souls shattered, dreams shattered, as mine in unrest. Academics, esteemed, soon left in the cold, Their jobs sacrificed for avarice, untold. Administrative staff, bloated and vast, While scholars find solace […]

The need for hard conversations
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The need for hard conversations

“People won’t always agree with me, and I don’t ever expect they will or do but we at least need to have the conversations that need to be had.” – @AuntyHeihei