Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran

In Episode 46: how Rainbow Kids are actively campaigning for their LGBTIQ families' rights, and how schools can better support them. Also, why personal stories are key to changing hearts and minds in the battle for human rights. 

• Further information and links for my chat with Felicity Marlowe, can be found here - https://pushingtheedge.org/46.
• Listen to more episodes in Season 5: Standing Up for Our Students in These Challenging Times - https://pushingtheedge.org/standing-up
• For more of my LGBTIQ posts and episodes, check out - https://pushingtheedge.org/glbti
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran - and do let me know what you think of this episode.

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In Episode 45, dual language English teacher, Victor Martinez didn’t see many other Latinx students like himself in college and he wants it to be different for his students.

We discuss opportunities and attitudes, along with bringing the lived experiences of his students and their families, however harsh they may be, into the classroom.

Also why do Victor’s students prefer to speak English rather than Spanish, and how does he challenge this.

Further information and links for my chat with Victor Martinez, can be found here - pushingtheedge.org/45.

Listen to more episodes in Season 5: Standing Up for Our Students in These Challenging Times.

There's also many more Social Justice-inspired educators and community leaders to listen to, check them out here.

Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran - and do let me know what you think of this episode.

And if you enjoyed this episode or found it useful, please tell others about it and share it. Thank you.

In Episode 44, how the hostile political climate around immigration impacts on students and their families, and why we need to support students' speaking up about the day to day racism in their lives.

We also explore how to be a color brave rather than a color blind teacher. And why silence around poverty and racism is oppressive

Further information and links for my chat with Rosa Perez-Isiah, can be found here - pushingtheedge.org/44.

Listen to more episodes in Season 5: Standing Up for Our Students in These Challenging Times.

We've also got many more Social Justice-inspired educators and community leaders to listen to, check them out here.

Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran - and do let me know what you think of this episode.

And if you enjoyed this episode or found it useful, please tell others about it and share it. Thanks so much.

In Episode 43, parent and children's book author, Jo Hirst reveals the ups and downs of raising a trans child in an often hostile world.

We explore the challenges of how to be an advocate for your child; and how schools can better support trans and gender diverse young people.

• Further information and links for my chat with Jo Hirst, can be found here - pushingtheedge.org/43.
• Listen to more episodes in Season 5: Standing Up for Our Students in These Challenging Times.
• We've also got many more Social Justice-inspired educators and community leaders to listen to, check them out here.
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran - and do let me know what you think of this episode.

And if you enjoyed this episode or found it useful, please share it. Thanks so much.

In Episode 42, becoming conscious about oppression; why we need to re-think traditional critical thinking and debating approaches in the classroom; re-thinking how we view anger about injustices perpetrated on our communities; and how to get beyond generic approaches to diversity and inclusion.

• For further information and links for this episode, go to pushingtheedge.org/42
• Listen to more Season 5 episodes on Standing Up for Students in Challenging Times
• We've also got many more Social Justice-related episodes, check them out here.
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran

If you enjoyed this episode or found it useful, please tell others and share it. Thanks.

In Episode 41, from holding back as a teacher - to standing up and speaking out for our students and their communities; who’s present and who’s absent in our history curricula and text books? And how can we get beyond diatribe when debating social issues in the classroom?

There's also our Spotlight segment where we shine a light on youth activism.

• For further information and episode links, go to pushingtheedge.org/41
• Listen to Season 5 episodes on Standing Up for Students in Challenging Times
• And listen to more Social Justice-related episodes on 'Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran' podcast
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran

In Episode 40, why anti-oppressive education matters; why the concept of neutrality is problematic in education; how to create culturally responsive curricula; and honoring our students’ histories, existence, and ways of knowing.

All this plus our regular segments, Spotlight, Twists and Turns, and The Right Track.

• For further information and episode links, go to pushingtheedge.org/40 
• Check out more episodes in this current season, Standing Up for Students in Challenging Times.
• And listen to more Social Justice-related episodes on Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran.
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran

In this episode, standing up when hatred is stoked; building community through brave conversations about race; and why representation and presence matters. Here we talk hiring more black teachers, as well as The Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time.

Plus we shine a light on a civil rights lawyer from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and Val rethinks her views on country music.

• For further information and links, go to pushingtheedge.org/39
• Follow me on Twitter - @GregBCurran
• Listen to more Social Justice episodes on Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran

In this episode, we focus on a soccer team in the western suburbs of Melbourne Australia. A team made up almost entirely of new arrivals and refugees from the Horn of Africa.

Our guest studied this team, its players and families over a 3 year period. And we'll be unpacking his key discoveries.

In particular, how the players' construct their identities, their sense of place, and belonging to their new country through soccer and sport more generally.

Also how the young women are resisting narrow & discriminatory views of femininity AND creating their own sports spaces.

Plus how sports clubs are serving their entire communities using strengths or assets-based approaches to drive change.

For full show-notes go to: http://pushingtheedge.org/sports

Episode 38 - Quick-Guide

▪ Ramon's emerging interest in soccer & sport

▪ The local soccer club on Ramon's doorstep

▪ The challenges of running a local soccer club - for migrants & refugees

▪ Why migrants & refugees want to be involved in a soccer club

▪ The trans-national identities of the soccer players

▪ The generational differences in attitudes towards sport (parents and children)

▪ The gendered nature of sport

▪ Developing social and cultural capital through sport

▪ How playing sport challenges ideas about 'femininity' (Bodily capital and gender)

▪ Bridging capital: facing exclusion and discrimination in sporting clubs

▪ How sports clubs are using strengths and asset-based approaches to drive change

▪ The Lightning Round: cultural mobility and sport, cultural differences, participation, gender in sport, inclusion, one way versus two way processes to change

▪ The impact on Ramon - of researching his local soccer club (realisations of white privilege)

Episode Links

▪ To connect with Ramon Spaaij, and to find all the show links, go to http://pushingtheedge.org/sports/

▪ There you'll also find resources to make your Phys Ed class and Sports Club more inclusive.

Support Pushing The Edge Podcast

▪ If this episode got you thinking or inspired you - please share it, rate it, or write a short review of it in iTunes.

▪ Catch up on previous episodes in the podcast archive.

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▪ Thanks for listening and your ongoing support.

Warning: This episode contains language that some people may find offensive or distressing.

Show Description

Angie Greene's been surrounded by Professional Sport since she was a young kid.

Her Pop, Frank Sedgman was a champion tennis player, her dad Russell is in the Australian Football League Hall of Fame, and her two brothers were, and are talented athletes.

Their sports journeys though have been very different.

Steve went on to play AFL football at the highest level for 5 years. Brent however, removed himself from team sport altogether because of the homophobic language he'd hear on the sports field and in sports environments in general.

Angie saw what her brother was going through, over many years. Add in the sexism, and racism, and she didn't want to be part of sporting environments either.

That was till she started, Stand Up Events, an organisation that's challenging sexual and gender discrimination in sport.

For full show-notes go to: http://pushingtheedge.org/sports

Episode 37 - Quick-Guide

▪ Angie introduces herself and her organisation

▪ The differing sports journeys of Angie's brothers

▪ The challenges of sports cultures

▪ Teaching sports-people about homophobia and transphobia

▪ Knowing if people are open to change

▪ The homophobia in team-sports (for Angie's dad and brothers)

▪ Why visibility of LGBTI people (in sports clubs) matters

▪ Pride, homophobia and transphobia: The response of officials

▪ St Kilda: A leading club that's supporting LGBTI people in footy

▪ Three things sports clubs can do right now - for inclusion

▪ The Lightning Round: invisibility, standing up, inclusion, equality in sport, feeling welcome in sport, and impact

▪ Why there is space for standing up for social issues in sport

Episode Links

▪ To connect with Angie Greene and Stand Up Events, and to find all the show links, go to http://pushingtheedge.org/sports/

▪ There you'll also find resources to make your Phys Ed class and Sports Club more inclusive.

Support Pushing The Edge Podcast

▪ If this episode got you thinking or inspired you - please share it, rate it, or write a short review of it in iTunes - http://pushingtheedge.org/itunes/

▪ Check out the 'Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran' podcast archive

▪ Connect with me, Greg Curran, on Twitter 

▪ Thanks for listening and your ongoing support.