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'Strip!'.
A post World War II history of U.S. education would find one of the most important and un-ignorable themes to be the slow and fitful, but progressive, movement of marginalized people and their experiences into the mainstream of our classrooms. While this work is at different stages for different peoples, just now, trans topics have been gaining attention because of a combination of students, politics, and opportunities for new and complex thinking about gender. I have been part of this integration effort for over 15 years. My work has included teaching at conferences, training nonprofits, researching trans experiences of violence, contributing to journals and books, and speaking in classrooms. During this time, I wrote an essay called "Strip!" that is commonly used in college classrooms seeking to teach on trans topics, experiences, and lives.
This essay focuses on teaching trans in higher education and explores my experience in relation to that project: as a guest speaker invited to tell personal stories, mainly coming out stories; as a guest lecturer elaborating on research and analysis; as an instructor developing and teaching full-term courses at a major public university; as a participant at the conference that led to writing "Strip!"; and, especially, as the writer interacting with editors who affected the content of the published essay. These infor...See the full content of this document
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