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Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering the general prompt, 'What have you learned as a queer educator that you believe is essential to the success of current or future gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered educators?' The responses are thoughtful, powerful, poignant, and direct.
The collection of letters includes senior queer professionals, pre-service teachers who were currently in university courses at the very beginning of their careers, PreK-12 professionals at the beginning, middle, and end of their careers, administrators, counselors, teacher-educators at the university level, community educational leaders, lawyers, and heterosexual allies. There are early childhood teachers, elementary teachers, middle school and high school teachers representing nearly every content area, special education teachers, GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) leaders, school counselors, university professors of education across various fields of specialization, and activists. There are many races and ethnicities represented as well as eight countries. There are rural professionals and urban professionals. There are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered educators represented. This group of letters represents the intersectionality of queerness in all of its rich splendor.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface; Jeffrey S. Brooks.
Introduction and Overall Framework; Jeff Sapp and William DeJean.
Chapter 1. Queer Leadership; Jeff Sapp.
Part I. Preservice Credential Candidates.
Chapter 2. Introduction; Jeff Sapp.
Chapter 3. Studying to Become a Teacher in a Rural Area: The Obstacles That Get in the Way; Michelle Butters.
Chapter 4. The First, Frightening Moment I Came Out: A Diary Entry on a Cold and Rainy Day; Bernie Davern.
Chapter 5. Out in the Staffroom; Erin P. Greaves.
Part II. Pre-K-12 Educators.
Chapter 6. Introduction; Jeff Sapp and William DeJean.
Chapter 7. We Are Family: The Role of GLBTIQS Activism in Human Rights Education; Geoff Allshorn.
Chapter 8. Coming Out Again, and Again, and Again; Melissa Ash-Balá.
Chapter 9. Transparency, Visibility, and Belonging; Hau Bui.
Chapter 10. Come Out, Come Out, Where You Are: Bringing LGBT Matters Out of the Early Childhood Education Closet; Kathy Cloughessy.
Chapter 11. From a School Leader of the 21st Century to a Child of the Past and Teachers of the Future; Shaun Dellenty.
Chapter 12. On Being a Teacher First and Transgender Second; Itsuki Doi.
Chapter 13. Know and/of Established Rules, Practices, and Policies; Dora J. Dome.
Chapter 14. No More Schoolyard Bullies; Raul Duque.
Chapter 15. I Am Free; Lorelei Estrada.
Chapter 16. Ten Years of Inqueeries; Tara Goldstein.
Chapter 17. Advice From Beyond the Closet; Janna Jackson.
Chapter 18. That Gay Teacher; Rebecca Langham.
Chapter 19. The School Production and Queer Objects of Amusement; Jack Migdalek.
Chapter 20. Find Your Bottom Line; Elizabeth Miline-Kahn.
Chapter 21. To Come Out or Not to Come Out: Is it Worth the Risk? Paul Chamness Miller.
Chapter 22. Sleeping With a Mosquito; Olivia Noto.
Chapter 23. Confidence Is the Key; Ginny Taylor.
Part III. Counselors and Mediators.
Chapter 24. Introduction; Carol Sullivan.
Chapter 25. Be All of Whom You Are Early and Often; Stuart Chen-Hayes.
Chapter 26. A Toast for Amber and Lauren; Erwin Sino Donato.
Chapter 27. Coming Out With a Whisper; Osvelio C. Lastre.
Part IV. Higher Education.
Chapter 28. Introduction; Jeff Sapp.
Chapter 29. Queer-Care, Oxygen Masks, and Other Insights Into Caring for Yourself and Your Queer Students; Fiona J. Benson.
Chapter 30. Some Reflections on Working Around Anger and Change for New Queers; Michael Crowhurst.
Chapter 31. Who You Are Matters; William DeJean.
Chapter 32. Delusions of Mediocrity: Queer Teachers and Business as Usual; Anne Harris.
Chapter 33. Down the Rabbit Hole: Learning New Perspectives Around Diverse Genders, Sexes, and Sexualities; Terence Humphreys.
Chapter 34. Crossing the Pacific Ocean: A Queer Man of Color's Journey of Crossing Cultural Borders in Higher Education in the United States; Mitsunori Misawa.
Chapter 35. Be the Change You Wish to See in the World: Telling Our Stories With Integrity and Passion; Mara Sapon-Shevin.
Chapter 36. I Wish I Had Read the Faculty Manual: Tips for Queers in the System; Jeff Sapp.
Chapter 37. Queers Are Pioneers: Keeping an Open Mind About Education; Paul Venzo.
Part V. Allies, Accomplices, and Coconspirators.
Chapter 38. Introduction: Acts of Solidarity—Reflections of Ally Work Within Queer School Movements; Elexia McGovern-Reyes.
Chapter 39. From Antiracist to Antiracist Racist, From Ally to Accomplice; Christine Clark and Doris L. Watson.
Chapter 40. I Felt the Breeze as You Sprinted by Me; Paul Gorski.
Chapter 41. Make Allies; Sonia Nieto.
Chapter 42. Answering the Call: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For; Lorri J. Santamaria.
Chapter 43. Conclusion; Jeff Sapp and William DeJean.
About the Editors.
