Black, Queer & Educated — Queer Education RSS

I’ve been on a mission lately, which has led me to many professional developments, black education movements conferences/seminars, school equity meetings— you name it. I have attended them with the sole purpose of wanting to know if they were talking about you— were they thinking about you? They are rambling about a lot of things, but not about you in particular—you're somewhere in the crowd with other black kids— but you— you— you’re more than black- you are black and queer and often lost in the myriad of initiatives to help black students. But being black doesn’t save you from religious rhetoric in classrooms that deem your heart’s desires hell-bound. Or from the grotesques looks because your identity doesn't matched...