Sentences with phrase «challenging homophobia»

The Anti-Bullying Alliance will play a leading role in the Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH) Consortium, which will start its work with 10 schools across Avon and Somerset to build understanding of HBT bullying amongst both staff and pupils.

Challenging Homophobia in Schools, tells schools that as part of their action to prevent homophobia, they should avoid «heterosexism» a new word which the Department helpfully defines for us: «HETEROSEXISM describes the presumption that everyone is heterosexual.

Carlos Gutierrez - Solana challenges homophobia and AIDSphobia.

Not exact matches

We've had to go on a journey with it, and we've realized it's no longer possible to stand up for all speech in the hopes society will become a better place because racism will be challenged, or homophobia challenged, or extremism will be challenged.»

Sen. Diaz's homophobia must be constantly confronted and challenged.

Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has challenged the Welsh Government on the prevalence of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in Welsh schools, following homophobic tweeting at openly gay rugby referee Nigel Owens.

The LSE men's rugby team was notably dissolved for a year due to the student unions commitment to challenge «cultures that allow misogyny, sexism and homophobia to exist» after they pulled a number of high - profile pranks apparently indicative of «lad culture».

And when accused of homophobia, she suggested that those challenging her were «evil» and «expired people».

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

According to her, the major concern in the training of arts teachers is to introduce them to challenging work in the arts on issues of racism, sexism, homophobia, disability, and other identity - based areas in which injustice still happens.

This shouldn't have to be resolved by individual teachers — we need everyone in education to work together to collectively challenge sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.»

Challenging staffroom homophobia / biphobia / transphobia is just as important.

We asserted that the schools students deserve would provide a holistic education that supports educators in promoting a multicultural education that is explicitly anti-racist, challenges gender bias, and undermines homophobia.

In a wide range of feature films, meditative documentaries and art installations, he has consistently traversed challenging subject matter such as migration, economics, visual representation, homophobia and racism.

At least homophobia can be challenged in a democracy.

While same - sex / LGBT couples have many of the same challenges as heterosexual couples, they also face additional outside pressures due to homophobia that create conflict within the relationship.

«The couple or family status is constantly being questioned and challenged by the mainstream society; internalized homophobia is an ongoing presence in both partners.