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ACLU @aclu.org · Jun 16

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

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Harvard Education Press @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social · Jun 16

TRANS STUDIES IN K-12 EDUCATION edited by @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and @melindamangin.bsky.social argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4kvCxDl

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · May 19

@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · May 19

🥳📣 Call for abstracts: Special Issue of JQTSIE:
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social & @ftmathteacher.bsky.social!
Abstracts are due SOON: May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

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McKenna Horsley @mckennahorsley.bsky.social · Mar 20

Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...

Saying it's 'about hate,' Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education • Kentucky Lantern

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issues expected veto of a Republican-backed bn on diversity, equity and inclusion in Kentucky’s public colleges.

kentuckylantern.com

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Mar 12

The amount of damage to education that this administration is doing is irreparable. All the folks at NCES are in my thoughts

Travis T. York, Ph.D. (he/they) @travisyork.bsky.social · Mar 12

🧪The entire staff of the Department of Education’s NCES-a vital independent statistical agency - has just been RIFed. The continued erasure of data and evidence allows for the Trump administration to hide the impact of their corruption.
#EduSky #Scisky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Mar 7

how is it?!

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Feb 25

Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Courts rule on Trump administration initiatives including DOGE, DEI

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 13

Incredible news!

The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order.

The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care.

ACLU statement here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Feb 12

Congratulations to the five institutions receiving funding to improve their collection and use of SOGI data using best practices! Read more about our mixed-methods national study by QTPiE! We will be presenting some results at the AAAS annual meeting. If you'll be attending, stop by and see us!

American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · Feb 12

AAAS has awarded five institutions grants to implement new data collection practices with the goal of broadening access to STEMM fields for underutilized talent. They have received funds to build data infrastructure that allows for the ethical and law-attentive collection and use of SOGI data.

Five Postsecondary Institutions Receive Funding to Improve Collection and Use of SOGI Data | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Five institutions have received funding to support promising data collection practices with the goal of broadening access to science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical fields from under...

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · Feb 4

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

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Logan S. Casey, PhD @loganscasey.bsky.social · Jan 31

The CDC website for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has suddenly disappeared. YRBS provides invaluable youth health data, including for LGBTQ youth.

Trump admin is trying to enact harmful policy AND take away key tools to measure that harm. Like a crime + cover-up.
www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results...

Screenshot of the CDC's page for YRBS, showing that "The page you're looking for was not found." Screenshot as of 8:30am CT, 1/31/25.

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Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · Jan 24

🥳📣 Call for abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue of JQTSIE: "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social and @ftmathteacher.bsky.social! Abstracts due May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Critical Quantitative Methodologies SIG #186 @criticalquant.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hi Bluesky! Follow us on here now!

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Jan 9

Looking for a QuantQueer postdoc position with an amazing mentor?!? Look no further! Apply to VCU to work with Dr. Strunk!

Kamden Strunk @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social · Jan 8

I am hiring a postdoctoral position in queer quantitative educational research! This is a two-year position. I am more than happy to provide more information or talk with interested applicants. Apply by March 1st for full consideration. Full info and application: vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral FellowAbout the School of Education:The VCU School of Education, ranked #16 among public schools of education and #9 for funded researcha...

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Justin A. Gutzwa (they/them) @drjgutz.bsky.social · Dec 26

Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.

Justin A. Gutzwa (they/them) @drjgutz.bsky.social · Nov 17

Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing!

"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 20

Amazing leadership by Lee Iskander on this new paper out from the Trans Workers in Schools Project!

Lee Iskander @lee-iskander.bsky.social · Nov 20

I have a new article out today with colleagues @drmcquillan.bsky.social @harperkeenan.bsky.social @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, Bishop Owis, Christina Cook and Daniel Gallardo! We interviewed trans school workers and invited them to respond to this cultural moment: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVP6D...

‘Everything they think they know, they should forget’: how trans school workers respond to transphobic discourses

This article explores how trans school employees redeploy, trouble, challenge, and refuse prevalent discourses about transness and education. Drawing from interviews with 100 school workers in Cana...

www.tandfonline.com

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thank you, Weverton!

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 18

Super proud of our 2023 QTPIE Emerging Scholars cohort---here's their latest publication led by Arsene Frederic, Jr.!
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14...

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Justin A. Gutzwa (they/them) @drjgutz.bsky.social · Nov 17

Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing!

"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
Abstracts due: May 30, 2025
Full call: QR code/in the replies

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 18

it's that time of the year when so many of you will bake pecan everything, so here's a brief video on its pronunciation

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYLKLhjv/

The word #pecan comes from the native people who speak Algonquin languages. Learn more about word nerdy with @dr.language on Otherwords! #language #learnontiktok #english #nativetiktok

TikTok video by PBS Digital Studios

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David Feldon @dffeldon.bsky.social · Nov 17

So pleased to share a new study of rightful presence for queer youth in STEM through Making by @colbytg.bsky.social, me, @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, and our other co-authors not yet on BlueSky! It takes a mixed methods a blending social design experiment and queer theory. doi.org/10.1080/1050...

“I can be the weird STEM kid who is also gay”: Queer rightful presence in STEM making

STEM participation is often associated with the disenfranchisement of historically marginalized individuals. Disrupting these standing injustices to establish rightful presence with equitable oppor...

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 15

🤘🏼🙏🏽🖐

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Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you engage in queer and/or trans educational research, consider submitting your scholarship to #JQTSIE, a fee-free open-access academic journal! www.jqtsie.com
Journal Editors: @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thanks, Gabriel! I'm just a tranpa here trying to learn this platform as fast as possible so appreciate y'all young'ns helping us out!

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