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Living in a Mexican household with the father being the main head and his beliefs and thoughts are what are the most influential, I learned and did believe in masculinity and how women were not capable of many things. Then, you hit that moment when you realize you were just being discriminated against by your own family for being feminine or a female.

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As a light skinned biracial woman was called a wanna be white girl in junior high.

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It happens everyday all day. 92% of our Deaf student are in classes with no accessible natural language. 75% of Deaf children have no sign in the home, less than 10 % are in a home with an ACCESSIBLE language rich environment. Less than 5% of Black Deaf adults can read at an 8th grade level. I could go on and on....

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despite having helped build a campus wide restorative justice program, my role as an PBIS intervention coordinator in South Central LA situated my daily work squarely within the constraints of lingering carceral logics. too many times my work day ended with guilt around my mediating police interactions with young black students. some were unavoidable at the time... or at least I did not have the power to stop them, others were due to lack of imagination, understanding, time... each of these has left a scar on me that I try to heal from daily. I am sure my students are also coping with healing as well.

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I was told to go back to my country even though I was born in the U.S.

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I was told to go back to my country even though I was born in the U.S.

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Childhood asthma that had me sent to library by myself on the days they mowed the lawn, instead of thinking about mowing the lawns other days, other ways. I felt isolated and singled out.

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Childhood asthma that had me sent to library by myself on the days they mowed the lawn, instead of thinking about mowing the lawns other days, other ways. I felt isolated and singled out.

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called out for wearing P.E> shorts on  a free dress day and made to feel poor and ugly, and different. 

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called out for wearing P.E> shorts on  a free dress day and made to feel poor and ugly, and different. 

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first grade

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I misgendered someone and felt horrible about it.

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I misgendered someone and felt horrible about it.

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I “taught” grit/growth mindset to elementary aged students. Many of the students later identified as needing “intensive instruction” in these areas were Black or Brown and resisting the carcerality and deficit ideologies propagated by white teachers and the system of schooling.

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Everyone always laughed at my name during roll call and the teacher did nothing about it

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Everyone always laughed at my name during roll call and the teacher did nothing about it

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Kinder. All scholars asked to bring an object, gift, toy to share. I didn't have any "cool" like the toys my peers had.. so I shared my printed socks. They laughed. Did that pointing thing that makes you feel like object, rather than human. I realized then that my family couldn't afford what other families could. I felt: sad. ashamed. poor. without. I felt, like an outsider on the magic carpet that was meant to be .. I think.. a space to feel safe and be in community.

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Being taken out of class for special classes.

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Being taken out of class for special classes.

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My colleagues always getting credit and taking credit for work I have done

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My colleagues always getting credit and taking credit for work I have done

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Yes, a lot in city college where I was not understand the tech and I was just out of prison and people made comments about people my age constantly

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Yes, a lot in city college where I was not understand the tech and I was just out of prison and people made comments about people my age constantly

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teachers predicting students would end up in jail, dropping out, becoming teen mothers, etc.

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In elementary school playing basketball with a friend during lunch time the majority white students playing with us were mad we were winning the game and called us Niggers. After a fight broke out only me and my friend the only two black male students were taken to the office and suspended

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I see this happening all of the time and I know I have engaged in it as well. Trying to do better and remind myself that I am a work in progress.

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I see this happening all of the time and I know I have engaged in it as well. Trying to do better and remind myself that I am a work in progress.

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My parents telling me not to go on the sun so I dont get dark

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My parents telling me not to go on the sun so I dont get dark

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Mr Denike was my 11th grade teacher who asked me not to take the AP class in front of the class. He said he was worried I would bring down the average. I paid for it out of pocket and got a 5

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You are too smart, too pretty, too cool, too ____, to be Deaf

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You are too smart, too pretty, too cool, too ____, to be Deaf

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Pronounced a word in a way that could be pronounced several ways, while sharing something that felt vulnerable to share. The professor honed in on my pronunciation based on her preferred pronunciation, leaving me feeling dismissed for what I shared and unwilling to speak again in that class.

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Pronounced a word in a way that could be pronounced several ways, while sharing something that felt vulnerable to share. The professor honed in on my pronunciation based on her preferred pronunciation, leaving me feeling dismissed for what I shared and unwilling to speak again in that class.

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teachers applauding a Black mother for beating her teen son for protesting after Freddie Gray was killed in Baltimore

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Being sent to a corner to cry in 1st grade because I needed to learn to 'get ahold of' my emotions.

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Not being taken seriously for appearing to look young 

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Not being taken seriously for appearing to look young 

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Everyone assuming we are supposed to be married and it happens between "man" and "woman"

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Everyone assuming we are supposed to be married and it happens between "man" and "woman"

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Taken out of class to work with a ParaPro in a small closet like room because I was an ELL student. 

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Taken out of class to work with a ParaPro in a small closet like room because I was an ELL student. 

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Learning about colonization as a positive intervention in society

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If I closed my eyes, I wouldn't know you were Asian. Wow, you speak so clearly. You  must be really smart.

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If I closed my eyes, I wouldn't know you were Asian. Wow, you speak so clearly. You  must be really smart.

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Not being represented in the books assigned in English class

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Not being represented in the books assigned in English class

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In 7th grade my binder that was left in class was covered front and back with swastikas, being one of the only jewish kids, it was obviously intentional. My teacher took the binder and did nothing about it.

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Not having the right jeans and shoes in jr. high

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Not having the right jeans and shoes in jr. high

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Was asked by a family friend of my college boyfriend, who his "filly" was -- referring to me as if I was a horse or property. 

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Was asked by a family friend of my college boyfriend, who his "filly" was -- referring to me as if I was a horse or property. 

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The gym shorts at my High School did not come in my size given my height -- though at the time I was convinced it was because of my weight -- that I was too big. I was tall. That's all.

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The gym shorts at my High School did not come in my size given my height -- though at the time I was convinced it was because of my weight -- that I was too big. I was tall. That's all.

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My religious views are not Christian at all and they scare people

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My religious views are not Christian at all and they scare people

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Learning about manifest destiny

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Mr Gracia watches the class call me the F word then a fellow student slapped me while I was writing on the chalkboard completing my math problem.

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Mr Gracia watches the class call me the F word then a fellow student slapped me while I was writing on the chalkboard completing my math problem.

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After I was beaten in front of the class, I was sent to the principals office for disrupting the class

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Christianity in schools, also the pledge of allegiance, ugh

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Going to the nurse almost daily in 2nd grade for what I now realize was anxiety/sadness about missing my mom. Being told I was 'making up' feeling bad because I had 'no physical symptoms'.

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Mr Denike is a horrible person and I still resent him 20 years later

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Mr Denike is a horrible person and I still resent him 20 years later

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Students using the homophobic slurs over and over and teachers doing nothing 

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Students using the homophobic slurs over and over and teachers doing nothing 

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Girls being tracked to things like English and boys tracked into math and science

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Girls being tracked to things like English and boys tracked into math and science

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Mission project in grade school, re-creating a prime colonial site of violence

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Being embarassed at an elementary school assembly where I got an award and my dad went up the stage with me and had torn work clothes on because he was coming from work (he was a gardener).

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Being embarassed at an elementary school assembly where I got an award and my dad went up the stage with me and had torn work clothes on because he was coming from work (he was a gardener).

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Noticing how my brother who is darker than me was always profiled by school security

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The idea that if I was not thin that I was not attractive

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The idea that if I was not thin that I was not attractive

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An instructor who was an older white male. The class swam on a regular for this course and one day he looks at me head to toe with disgust and tells me: “you need to fix that tan”

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Christian and western holidays and lessons, never any acknowledgment of other cultures/religions

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Classmates who weren't Muslim but Sikh being confused as Muslim and being treated badly

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Classmates who weren't Muslim but Sikh being confused as Muslim and being treated badly

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You dress and talk like a white person you aren't Black

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teachers or admin bullying students into admitting that their version of the story is correct..punishing students for not "admitting" what they (believed) they did

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the further back I go in my teaching practice I can see how clearly I was teaching to a limited range of abilities... assessing a narrow scope of skills and knowledge bases... I now push myself and my teachers to implore a critical universal design for learning and teaching.

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Asking my dad to pick me up around the corner because I was embarrassed about the way he dressed and the car he drove

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Asking my dad to pick me up around the corner because I was embarrassed about the way he dressed and the car he drove

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students having to pay for the opportunity to not wear their uniform on dress down day

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Line up "boys on one side, girls on the other" and realizing that not everyone identifies this way. Too many times I see educators force scholars to choose. Or completely disengage if they do not.

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If you work hard enough, you will get to where you want to. The bootstrap mentality. 

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If you work hard enough, you will get to where you want to. The bootstrap mentality. 

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In 5th grade I witnessed my white best friend say racial slurs to a newly immigrated Asian student and said nothing even though I knew it was wrong. I separated myself as an assimilated Asian from this girl and the slur by telling myself the bad word wasn’t a slur for my race of Asian-ness.

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Deputy smirking in pleasure after putting his weight on a black man in jail. 

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Deputy smirking in pleasure after putting his weight on a black man in jail. 

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Being told Gay People are diseased and they carry HIV and other diseases. 

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Being told Gay People are diseased and they carry HIV and other diseases. 

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I was expelled from my catholic high school for my gender and sexual identity. I sued them for discrimination, won, and established an LGBT student association on campus, albeit underfunded.

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One of first memories is being taken out of class for  ELL work (spanish), nobody even asked me any questions to find out that spanish wasn't my heritage language...layered

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One of first memories is being taken out of class for  ELL work (spanish), nobody even asked me any questions to find out that spanish wasn't my heritage language...layered