Educators Aren't Cowards From Me

In high school in the suburbs of North Texas, a community that very much its politics are in line with people like Ron DeSantis encountering poets like Audrey Lorde and Margaret Atwood in particular changed my life. She didn't even talk about gender politics. But every poet, she assigned that semester was a woman who consistently wrote about gender dynamic,. And I just now think, Oh, wow, what if that teacher who was like, you know, in teaching now would go, Oh, I can't do that. You know, I got to change my curriculum because I don't want to get in trouble."