about Gender Identity Justice in Schools and Communities

This premiere book in the new Teachers College Press series School : Questions carefully walks readers through both theory and practice to equip them with the skills needed to bring gender identity justice into classrooms, schools, and ultimately society. The text looks into the root causes and ways to change the conditions that have created gender identity injustice. It opens up spaces where evolving, indeterminate gender identities will be understood and recognized as asset-based, rich sources for learning literacy and literacy learning. As educators take up the strategies mapped out across this text, they will learn how to foster school environments that aid all students in becoming agents for social change. This text is the first of its kind to address gender identity in teacher education with pathways to take up the work in communities and beyond.

“...an illuminating guide for educators and administrators on creating a safe and welcoming space for gender-nonconforming students in schools. Miller’s guidance is comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and accessible to all readers. The balanced mix of pedagogical theory and practical advice should prove instrumental to educators seeking to make their classrooms more inclusive.”
Publishers Weekly

“This work stands as an invitation to learn together and work for more socially just schools.”
—From the Foreword by Cris T. Mayo, West Virginia University

“This is a book for teachers to learn not just the ins and outs about gender identity, but also why gender identity matters in the fight for justice.”
—Bettina Love, University of Georgia

“Provides key tools and analysis for a wide range of school-based personnel to create flourishing environments for all students.”
—Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University

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about Gender Identity Justice in Schools and Communities

This premiere book in the new Teachers College Press series School : Questions carefully walks readers through both theory and practice to equip them with the skills needed to bring gender identity justice into classrooms, schools, and ultimately society. The text looks into the root causes and ways to change the conditions that have created gender identity injustice. It opens up spaces where evolving, indeterminate gender identities will be understood and recognized as asset-based, rich sources for learning literacy and literacy learning. As educators take up the strategies mapped out across this text, they will learn how to foster school environments that aid all students in becoming agents for social change. This text is the first of its kind to address gender identity in teacher education with pathways to take up the work in communities and beyond.

“...an illuminating guide for educators and administrators on creating a safe and welcoming space for gender-nonconforming students in schools. Miller’s guidance is comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and accessible to all readers. The balanced mix of pedagogical theory and practical advice should prove instrumental to educators seeking to make their classrooms more inclusive.”
Publishers Weekly

“This work stands as an invitation to learn together and work for more socially just schools.”
—From the Foreword by Cris T. Mayo, West Virginia University

“This is a book for teachers to learn not just the ins and outs about gender identity, but also why gender identity matters in the fight for justice.”
—Bettina Love, University of Georgia

“Provides key tools and analysis for a wide range of school-based personnel to create flourishing environments for all students.”
—Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University

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This premiere book in the new Teachers College Press series School : Questions carefully walks readers through both theory and practice to equip them with the skills needed to bring gender identity justice into classrooms, schools, and ultimately society. The text looks into the root causes and ways to change the conditions that have created gender identity injustice. It opens up spaces where evolving, indeterminate gender identities will be understood and recognized as asset-based, rich sources for learning literacy and literacy learning. As educators take up the strategies mapped out across this text, they will learn how to foster school environments that aid all students in becoming agents for social change. This text is the first of its kind to address gender identity in teacher education with pathways to take up the work in communities and beyond.

“...an illuminating guide for educators and administrators on creating a safe and welcoming space for gender-nonconforming students in schools. Miller’s guidance is comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and accessible to all readers. The balanced mix of pedagogical theory and practical advice should prove instrumental to educators seeking to make their classrooms more inclusive.”
Publishers Weekly

“This work stands as an invitation to learn together and work for more socially just schools.”
—From the Foreword by Cris T. Mayo, West Virginia University

“This is a book for teachers to learn not just the ins and outs about gender identity, but also why gender identity matters in the fight for justice.”
—Bettina Love, University of Georgia

“Provides key tools and analysis for a wide range of school-based personnel to create flourishing environments for all students.”
—Erica R. Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807777664
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 04/05/2019
Series: School : Questions
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

sj Miller, award-winning teacher, writer, scholar, and activist, is a secondary literacy specialist whose emphasis is on social justice and gender identity in pre-K through university level teaching. sj is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, CBS, GLSEN, and PBS and is the recipient of the 2019 AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award.

Table of Contents

Singing in Dark Times: A Series Introduction William Ayers ix

Foreword Cris T. Mayo xi

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction: Why Does Gender Identity Justice Matter? 1

Emily, the Every Student 3

Why Gender Identity Justice Matters 4

Entering Into This Work 8

Sowing Seeds in Education for Gender Identity Justice 14

Online Appendixes 16

1 Why Is It Urgent to Address Gender Identity Complexity in Educational Settings? 19

Questionable and "Stable" Protections 21

The Political Climate's Toll on Regulating Gender Identity 23

Two Simultaneous Front-Facing Issues: Gavin Grimm and the Federal Guidance and Its Rollback 25

Cautions About Compartmentalizing Gender Identities 28

2 What Are the Dangers of the Cisgender Assumption? 33

Cisgender Privilege 34

School Through the Eyes of Students with Complex Gender Identities 41

How a Recognition Gap and Identity Erasure Impact Students 43

3 How Do Assumptions About Students' Complex Gender Identities Affect Their Schooling Experiences? 46

Addressing Gender Identity Complexity in Schools 47

How Students Embody Refusals of Assimilation 51

Gender identity Complexity as Literacy Learning and Learning Literacy 53

Why Shifts in Relationships to Students' Complex Gender Identities Matter 56

4 "I Don't Have the Slightest Insight About Where I Should Begin" 58

Addressing Gender Identity Complexity in Schooling Contexts 58

Addressing Fears 59

Strategies in Disrupting Cisgender Assumption 60

5 How Can I Understand Gender Identity as Trans-Sectional and Trans-Cultural? 74

Gender Identity Is Trans-Sectional 74

Gender Identity Is Trans-Cultural 75

A Theory of Trans* 76

A Pedagogy of Refusal: Micro-Sanctuary of Literacy Learning 77

Meaning-Making of a Pedagogy of Refusal as a Micro-Sanctuary 78

Resetting the Pedagogical Default About Gender Identity 78

6 What Does the Future of Gender Identity Justice Look Like? 81

Sustaining Gender Identity Complexity Self-Determination 82

Sustaining Sown Seeds for Gender Identity Complexity Justice 82

Glossary of Shifting Terms 85

References 89

Index 91

About the Author 98

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This work challenges privilege, shows generosity, and enables new educative approaches to gender identity complexity and connections across gender-based oppressions and exclusions. This work stands as an invitation to learn together and work for more socially just schools, and for understanding that students with complex gender identities need, deserve, and insist on educational justice in these and other changing times."
—Cris T. Mayo, Director of the LGBTQ+ Center and Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, West Virginia University


"There is only one word to describe the work of sj Miller: champion. sj’s work is restless, complex, inspiring, honest, loving, and thought-provoking. about Gender Identity Justice in Schools and Communities is some of sj’s finest work. This is a book for teachers to learn not just the ins and outs about gender identity, but also why gender identity matters in the fight for justice."
―Bettina Love, associate professor of education, University of Georgia, and Author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom


“Accessible and timely, sj Miller provides key tools and analysis for a wide range of school-based personnel to create flourishing environments for all students, specifically those with complex gender identities, including nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, transgender, gender fluid, and gender nonconforming. With a generous intersectional analysis, about Gender Identity Justice in Schools and Communities is not just a necessary read for those of us working in schools, but for all who aim to build flourishing communities.
Erica R. Meiners, Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor, Northeastern Illinois University

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