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ezragouvea.bsky.social
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@ezragouvea.bsky.social
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AuDHD queer postdoc at an education nonprofit (Rethink Learning Labs), mathematics past life, STEM Education PhD, helping with the work of bringing cultural studies to Learning Sciences and STEM classrooms
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There's another dimension to this Rosa Parks story that you may not know. This is where the story most often gets mis-narrated.

The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story.

James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ezragouvea.bsky.social
I’ll be starting the Slow Caustic Reading Group back up again, and I’m revisiting scheduling with a poll!

[https://forms.gle/5fN4q4efbzGJPYQ56](forms.gle/5fN4q4efbzGJ...)
Scheduling Poll: Slow Caustic Reading Group
We have here a no-homework no-commitment Slow reading group with mostly STEM Education folks interested in relational ontology. (Other folks more than welcome!) We have been meeting at 11am on Tuesday...
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January 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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How Black autistic women and girls are excluded from conversations on resources and research
19thnews.org/2023/06/blac...
Instead of probing into why 7-year-old Bria was so “self-sufficient” that she could watch herself for hours at a time without needing to play or interact with anyone, or so “mature” that she could maintain her school and bedtime routine without prompting or distraction, the adults in Herbert’s life called her “responsible” and a “role model” for others. White parents seemed to be motivated to get their kids diagnosed as autistic or have a diagnosis of any kind using what Diemer referred to as “magic words” like “sensory processing issues” or “overwhelmed” when presenting their children’s cases. They used language that made it clear they were at the very least familiar with information on autism or developmental disabilities — and that would almost guarantee them a screening. For families of color, however, she noticed the language used tended to consist of less clinical descriptors like “bad attitude,” “temper tantrums” or “busybody” to describe similar behavior One example is with girls, oftentimes repetitive behaviors might be more gender stereotyped. So for example, one little girl I worked with repetitively drew animals,” Diemer said. “Like, draw a tiger. Turn the page. Draw a tiger. Turn the page. Draw a tiger. Turn the page. That is a classic repetitive behavior. But, it hadn’t been flagged for anybody because, ‘Little girls like to draw a lot of pictures.’” “Instead of asking, ‘How is being a Black girl with autism different from being a White boy with autism?’ Let’s just talk about what being a Black girl with autism is like,” she said. Her research found that since 1943, only three studies featured Black girls. Of them, only one was explicitly studying a Black girl in America. Of the other two, one was conducted in South Africa and one didn’t report the location of the case study and resulted in the research team scouring secondary sources for complete information. All three were conducted over a 13-year-span (1993-2006), and none addressed intersectionality. In the 77 years of autism-related research reviewed, only about 28 percent included race descriptors, and 46 percent considered race in determining the research outcomes. When race, ethnicity and nationality were recorded, 63.5 percent of participants identified as White, whereas 6.8 percent identified as Black.
September 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
ezragouvea.bsky.social
Hey, I’m starting a reading group on relational ontology for* STEM Ed and Learning Sciences people (*that’s what I have in mind, but anyone is welcome)!
August 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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—reposting to second that recommendation of McKittrick’s “Mathematics of Black Life” article. I can’t remember if I read it before, but it’s feeling helpful to think with today

www.jstor.org/stable/10.58...
August 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM