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Teaching While Queer began as a podcast in 2022 and evolved into a not-for-profit organization in 2024 to support queer educators around the world.

Teaching While Queer provides queer folks working in education with a community to feel less alone and unload the burden of identity politics so you can work & live as your authentic self. Our Mission
Teaching While Queer’s mission is to create safe schools and communities where every educator can teach, every family can belong, and every child can learn regardless of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Our Values
Teaching While Queer believes that all educators and youth deserve to feel safe and welcome in our schools and communities. Community
We believe in the power of authentic connection and community by fostering the wellbeing of Queer educators, honoring lived experiences, promoting safety within school communities, offering resources, and a safe space. Service
We provide support for all Queer Educators through mentorship, coaching, financial support, crisis mitigation, and referrals to resources we are unable to accommodate. Advocacy
We create culturally responsive classrooms and communities by elevating the pillars of diversity, inclusion, equity, access, justice, and belong at every level. Education
We provide professional development opportunities which promote collaborate toward innovative solutions to challenges, helping to enhance queer educators’ problem solving skills thus promoting educational independence for their students.

10/20/2026

Sometimes you just want someone you can talk to without having to explain your whole backstory. Or someone who checks in on you.

Teaching can be lonely and finding your community is so important. We spend so much time thinking about whether students feel connected at schools but educators need connection, too.

What would make your work feel less lonely?

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10/19/2026

Last week was our 2nd Q***ring Education Conference and we heard from some amazing educators. We’ll be sharing snippets of different sessions throughout the coming weeks.

Today our founder, Bryan Stanton, has a message for all marginalized educators. We see you. We see your strength but we also feel your frustration, anger and exhaustion.

We cannot build a movement around the expectation of endless personal bravery.

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10/10/2026

That’s a wrap on Day 1 of the Q***ring Education Conference!

Don’t worry there is more tomorrow and you get 6 months access to all the sessions.

Registration is still open to get in on this global perspective of q***ring education.

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10/07/2026

We are only a few days away from the Q***ring Education Conference! This is your chance to connect, learn, and grow together.

Registration is just $40 this year due to a generous grant from NYC Pride.

Comment “Let Me In” for a direct link.

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10/05/2026

Students notice things we convince ourselves they don’t.

Who feels safe speaking.

Who gets grouped together.

Which teachers are able to be visible.

Whether the classroom changes when identity enters the conversation.

At QEC 2026:

Q***ring Active Learning: LGBTQ+ Students’ Experiences in Undergraduate Science Classrooms
Mary Kahraman

What Students Remember: Researching the Impact of Q***r Teacher Visibility
Sean McGill

Research gives us a chance to compare the classroom we think we created with the one students actually experienced.

Those are not always the same classroom.

If student experience is part of your work, save this session spotlight.

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10/04/2026

What if we stopped asking q***r students how to survive school?

What if we asked what they would build instead?

That shift matters.

At QEC 2026:

What Could School Become? Engaging Trans and Nonbinary Youth Imagined Futures Through Art and Reflection
SJ Hemmerich

“You Better Work!”: Q***r Youth, Representation, and Belonging in Public Schools in Conservative States
Margot Zsofia Leary

Both sessions center q***r and trans young people as people with knowledge, analysis, imagination, and ideas about education.

Not simply people adults need to “help.”

If student voice matters to your work, save this one.

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10/02/2026

Sometimes exclusion is hidden in the boring stuff.

A form.

An intake process.

A registration system.

The way a meeting is facilitated.

Who gets invited to speak.

Who gets listened to when they do.

That is why operational inclusion matters.

At QEC 2026:

Inclusion by Design: Operational Practices That Build Safer Learning Spaces for Q***r and Trans Learners
Husseinah Abubakar & Hassanat Abubakar

Breaking the Silence: Amplifying LGBTQIA2S+ Voices
Josef Vice & Melissa Bahle

Inclusive education is shaped by far more than curriculum.

It is built into the systems surrounding the learning.

Save this for the person on your team who actually builds those systems.

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10/01/2026

“Ally” can become a very comfortable word.

The harder question is what happens after we claim it.

What are we willing to interrupt?

What are we willing to change?

What responsibility comes with having more access or power than someone else?

At QEC 2026:

How To Be A Co-Conspirator, From Race to Gender Identity And Beyond
Ri Cruz

Next-Level Ally: From Words to Action
Eli Sachse

Both sessions ask participants to move past identity labels and toward practice.

Because solidarity should change something.

Share this with someone who is ready to go beyond saying, “I support you.”

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