Join us at the Final Conference on 13 May 2023 in Munich!
All Inc!’s Franziska, from our DE1 team, reminds us in this week’s post of the project’s upcoming conference — vielen Dank Franziska! The All Inc! project started in September 2020 in the…
Obedience for a better future
Hungary has not seen many positive changes recently when it comes to education, international opportunities, or equality and inclusion. The infamous “paedophile law” has in many ways brought alienation and division to…
“Sometimes I can’t find myself”
All Inc’s Spanish team (thank you Nuria!) is sharing with us two pieces created by student Elvira Zeta. Elvira’s first piece is the poem we present in its entirety (English translation below;…
“Coming out has helped me find friends I can trust and confidence within myself”
For this post, All Inc!’s Michael, on behalf of the UK team, brings us this interview with a fifteen-year-old trans secondary school student — thank you Michael! How old were you when…
A rainy reunion: All Inc! meets in Leuven! 
The All Inc! project partners came together for a rainy but spirited reunion in Leuven, Belgium over the weekend of 19-20 November. With (almost) all partner institutions represented, and with a few partners joining…
Holidays are coming…
Now that the Indian Summer has given way to wet and windy autumn days, Christmas decorations of all kinds are appearing in shop windows, public squares and already even in the living…
On transphobic rhetoric — schools are a new battleground
To say that we have had some political turmoil in the UK recently is an understatement – in fact someone recently wryly noted that we are living a chapter in future History…
Greek students’ newspaper celebrates diversity
On behalf of our GR2 team, Aggeliki is sharing with us this project —a school newspaper— co-created by instructors and pupils of the Ekto Gymnasio Mytilinis “Giannis & Aristeidis Delis”. Ευχαριστώ πολύ,…
Save the date for our Munich conference!
The All Inc! consortium is organising the project’s final meeting and its international multiplier event on the 13th of May 2023. This event seeks to promote inclusive education across Europe, with a…
All Inc!’s book is out!
A Little Respect? LGBT+ Perspectives on Education from Across EuropeWaxmann Verlag (2022)Link to publisher’s site Discrimination against the LGBT+ community persists across Europe. Education is not immune to this: young people across…
Who is Sam the Snail?
Even today, school represents a social space that is strongly heteronormative. This creates situations of exclusion and social discrimination where people who do not conform to these norms in the school and…
Rainbows colour rural communities
About a month ago, our sister Twitter site carried a link to a piece found in the Spanish media about Vivares, a village in the Extremadura region (south west Spain), whose local…
Why is it important to have a visually inclusive LGBTQ+ school environment?
All children in the UK between the ages of 5 and 16 are entitled to a free place at a state school. The “Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022” document states: “Safeguarding…
Rainbow over the dark clouds
A little over a year ago, we posted a rather sad blog entry shortly after the Hungarian Parliament had passed a bill that threatened the freedom of information about the LGBT+ community. …
Academia should include LGBT+ researchers
Workplace harassment and exclusionary behaviour against LGBT+ researchers are pervasive in academia. A large survey of 25,000 scientists from the United States has exposed that LGBT+ scientists were 20% more likely than…
“Pride without prejudice”, plus a new initiative
AllInc!’s Justyna makes a double contribution to this blog — bardzo dziękuję Justyno! 11 June 2022 Equality Parade in Wrocław – we are going for equality The parade on June 11, 2022,…
“I don’t exist in a euphemism”
Days ahead of his graduation speech, Florida student Zander Moricz forcefully conveyed (in this interview with Teen Vogue, from which the above photo is taken) his sense of outrage at having to…
All Inc! goes to Greece!
Heated. That about sums up the meeting in sunny Greece on the island of Lesbos. Heat itself is not a bad thing, nor am I suggesting that things didn’t work out or…
All Inc! is connecting with leaders in diversity and inclusion all around the world
AllInc!’s Philipp Aigner, from our DE2 team, was nominated by the U.S. Department of State for its International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The IVLP, under the title “A Global Moment in Time:…
“All Inc!” project in German “Queer Mentor” podcast
AllInc!’s Philipp Aigner, from our DE2 team, was recently interviewed in an episode of the “Queer Mentor” platform’s podcast. The “Queer Mentor” initiative seeks to connect young queers with experienced queer mentors…
It’s that time of the year…
… when our colleagues from the ES2 team share with us all the exciting activities they organize to commemorate Pride. Here’s their press release: For the second year in a row, the…
Now we can all donate blood
In the early 1990s, the Hellenic National Blood Donation Center (link), in an effort to enhance public awareness regarding blood donation, used the slogan “You do not donate your blood, you just…
For a queer school
In this post, ES2’s Nuria reflects on ideas inspired by the book Pedagogías queer (Queer Pedagogies), by Mercedes Sánchez Sáinz. (Find links to this book, and to other references mentioned in the…
Gender-related terminology and its importance
In the last decade, we have seen a growing number of people who are fighting against gender norms and coming out as members of the LGBTQ+ community. In this post we are…
Rainbow zebra crossing in Herzele
At our school gates we had to wait for it a little longer, but just like in many other Belgian towns, the municipality of Herzele now has its own ‘rainbow zebra crossing’…
Hungary’s upcoming referendum: a Catch-22 situation — and a way out
We have previously reported in this blog on the June 2021 Hungarian bill, allegedly a “child protection”, anti-pedophile act that unmistakably targeted the LGBTQI+ community in an attempt to keep them hidden…
The German “gender gaga discussion” and the invasion of Ukraine
Recently, I heard my neighbours talk about the horrible war in Ukraine. One of them pointed out: “That’s what we get now from these fucking gender discussions!” Caught off guard, I was…
LGBT+ talent is a big opportunity for employers in a tight labor market
Via our Belgian team of Kristof and Oliver, our blog welcomes this contribution originated in the JoinMe2 project for inclusive education. Read the project’s mission statement here. Special thanks to our team…
AllInc! reaches a wider audience in Gibraltar
Fresh from the Cádiz meeting, AllInc’s Zoltan travelled to nearby Gibraltar to deliver a public lecture on “Law in Schools – Challenges in Teacher Training”. From the event’s description: “What are the…
AllInc! goes to Cádiz!
Now that Europe is on the way to recovery from the complications of Covid-19, our latest project meeting thankfully could take part physically. For the most part, all participating countries were able…