On 13 May 2023, the final conference of the Erasmus+ project All Inc! Building LGBT+ friendly schools across Europe took place at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. It was an exciting and inspiring day with a lot of exchange between the participants from different countries, where new contacts were made and perhaps new ideas started.
All Inc!’s Berto from the PL1 team has conducted the interview that is hyperlinked at the bottom of this post — dziękuję Berto! I can perfectly remember this Amy Grant song from…
On behalf of the project’s coordinators, All Inc!’s Lotte send this overview of the work that has been carried out, and a reminder of the activities at the upcoming Munich conference —…
We were recently struck by media reports on the consequences of Florida’s July 2022 Bill HB 1467 on K–12 (=primary and secondary) education, which was amended in December 2022 to extend to…
AllInc’s Justyna updates us on a recent legislative change in Poland — dziękuję Justyno! Local governments in Poland that adopted resolutions against ‘LGBT ideology’ in 2019 and 2020 are likely to start…
Last December, the managers of Thessaloniki Pride, the Therapaizein group, the NGO Rainbow Families and students of the Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries (University of Thessaly) jointly organized an initiative…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
