Metropolitics

How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women

C. Ray Borck — 2017-05-16T20:02:21Z

Do recent “bathroom bills” protect girls and women from sexual predators? Sociologist C. Ray Borck shows how—contrary to popular belief—gender-segregated public restrooms do not keep girls and women safe from violence. Public restrooms play an important role in public health, especially in urban contexts, and should be available and safe for all people regardless of gender identity or expression.
The national conversation in the US about whether or not transgender and gender-nonconforming

- Debates / gender, LGBTQ+, transgender, trans*, gender-nonconforming, gender violence, gender segregation, cisgender, girls, women, sexual violence, bathroom bill, HB2, sexual assault, hegemonic masculinity, masculinity

“Harriet Jacobs didn't learn to read and write so that she could get an A”

C. Ray Borck — 2016-05-03T05:00:00Z

Confronted by school systems that persistently reproduce race- and class-based educational inequality, how can individual poor students of color navigate their own educational paths to realize self-actualization, engaged learning, and scholastic success? Urban ethnographer C. Ray Borck shows how one school in Brooklyn is teaching students to harness their historical disenfranchisement and cultural strength for educational achievement.
Poor youth of color are more likely to attend struggling

- From the Field / New York, race, education, Brooklyn, school, culturally competent curriculum, critical racial awareness, public education, educational inequality, racial pedagogy, Brooklyn schools