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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Our project was present at the meeting, held in València (Spain) on 16-17 December, at which the “Universities for Diversity” Network was officially constituted. Twenty-five representatives of the units, offices or observatories…
As Polish parlament moves closer to passing the so-called “Lex Czarnek”, designed —in the name of protecting “the morality of children”— to increase governmental control of school curricula and, by implication, eliminate…
For several weeks now, Germany has had a new government, led by a new (male) chancellor, Olaf Scholz. A coalition agreement, reached by three different political parties and entitled “Daring to make…
Currently, Poland is a country of dissonance and many contradictions. Friday 29 October saw the Seym* pass the citizen’s legislative initiative “STOP LGBT”, promoted by Kaja Godek on behalf of the Życie…
The city of Leeuwarden was the Netherland’s national center of celebrations regarding Coming Out Day and Pink Saturday. Numerous activities in the city attracted many to join and also show support to…
Navigating Hungary’s LGTB+ history, and analysing its legal frameworks, one can easily recognise the U-turn the current government has taken as regards the policies and attitudes towards the LGBT+ community developed over…
With the aim of eliciting input from Ekto Gymnasio Mytilinis and other local secondary schools in Greece about school-based sexuality education, many pupils have responded to a questionnaire —similar to the one…
Such was the cry that brought together hundreds of demonstrators in Madrid last Saturday, following a week when the news of yet another homophobic attack, which turned out to be untrue, both…
