In this week’s episode, guest host Mckenzee Griffler (she/her) speaks with Gender Reveal grant winner Sam Long (he/him), a high school biology teacher working to make science classes more diverse, accurate and inclusive. Topics include:
- What most high school biology classes get wrong
- Becoming the first trans astronaut
- Queering curriculums (through animal mating rituals)
- How being gay could help a population(!)
- Finding trans Nemo?!?
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Find Sam at sam-long.weebly.com and at @samlong713. Sam also recommends learning more about his collaborator, Lewis Maday-Travis, at fishyteaching.com.
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