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Tyson Seburn
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Just your generally joyful, responsible 🏳️‍🌈 English language educator in Toronto, trying to do useful things. #HowToInclusive (bit.ly/howtoinclusive) & ARC (bit.ly/arc-book). il/ele/he

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I am important university man.
Looking out at graduates at Convocation
October 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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One of my favourite episodes from the ESL Talk podcast, as you can imagine. If you don't know much about #HowToInclusive practices, I recommend this one. I'm pretty clear. 😆

Online: shows.acast.com/6092f46767f0...

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/5A1X...
Promo image of me in a circle, then pink, dark peach, and yellow stripes with words "with our guest Tyson Seburn, Author of How to Write Inclusive Materials"
October 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Be the one your learners can come out to. They may have no one else.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Yearly tradition post.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Voting for Membership Committee Chair, a Board of Trustees position for 3 years, closes on Monday. Please vote! It's important to me.

Read our statements and see our videos AND VOTE via links in member emails.

Thank you. 😊
Promo image from IATEFL telling everyone that voting closes soon. It shows a young woman similing and looking at her laptop.
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Poster for Teaching While Queer conference. Tyson Seburn presents “The Library is Open” on Oct 11, 2025.
September 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Let me introduce myself.
www.instagram.com/p/DOuHVgjjGLQ/
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September 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This was a fun talk to... talk about. Hi.

If you want to know more, visit the IATEFL Literature SIG group and maybe there'll be recordings at some point.
Promo image for a talk about Heartstopper to English language teachers specialising in literature. It's got Charlie & Nick embracing.
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Don't give up. Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion is more important than ever. Speak about them at your education conferences and events. Get in touch! 🌈
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August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Have you used Academic Reading Circles for a while in your EAP classes or other higher ed courses? Maybe you have done some action research using them and have commentary to help others or recommendations to make them work better for your group.

Consider a chapter proposal! bit.ly/ARC-Call
July 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Hey Educators: Have you seen the 20-day #SharedPride LGBTQ+ resources for educators? Check all them out at seburnt.substack.com!

I'm ELT, but these can work in pretty much all contexts because they're not about English language specifically.
Colour flora bouquets are in the background on a light beige backdrop. Stylised beige and then colourful font says Shared Pride, 20 LGBTQ+ Resources for Educators
July 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Have you seen the 20-day #SharedPride LGBTQ+ resources for educators? Check all them out at seburnt.substack.com!

I'm ELT, but these can work in pretty much all contexts because they're not about English language specifically.
Colour flora bouquets are in the background on a light beige backdrop. Stylised beige and then colourful font says Shared Pride, 20 LGBTQ+ Resources for Educators
July 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Ahh the start of a new academic session with more new instructors... is there any better vibe in the university?
A blended rainbow colour background and faded University of Toronto International Summer Academy logo. White text says "Let's enjoy our Session B together!"
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#SharedPride 🌈 Day 4: Queer stats in sexy graphs

READ MORE: seburnt.substack.com/p/sharedprid...
A graphic of a colour pie chart and layered chart with text that says "PRIDE MONTH SHARE 2025 - Day 4: Queerness stats in' sexy graphs"
June 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Happy #PrideMonth, EVERYONE. It's for us, but it's also for everyone.

Trans people need your active and loud support.
Drag is love not danger.
We are joy.
My profile photo but queered up more colourfully for Pride: I have pink hair; the background has some pink and yellow clouds that you can see through the variety of green foliage. My lips are brighter red than usual.
June 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Coming up on "werk.", a daily series of Queer resources, ideas, and activities for our language classrooms, all June long!

✨ werk. is my substack, focussed on queerness in ELT --> seburnt.substack.com

#HowToInclusive #LGBTQinELT #QueeringELT
May 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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What a lovely summary of the purpose of university education/community
Teams screenshot. A chart with three columns that show 3 stages of university education: Knowledge (acquiring knowledge; tradition), Critique (Unsettling knowledge; the present), Iquiry (Creating knowledge; the future).
May 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is a very cool historical photo to pop up during #TransHistoryWeek
We've always been here 🏳‍⚧✨Circa 1921, colorized photo of 3 trans women and 1 trans man standing outside Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science. It was one of the earliest clinics for gender affirming care and research
May 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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sneak preview. here only. you don't know what this is yet, but I do.
May 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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IATEFL Scholarship applications are OPEN to 18 June 2025.

www.iateflconference.org/about-the-co...
May 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In this #LanguageIsQueer series starting today, I do a little exploration into language rooted in Queerness, for teachers and learners.

First up an easy one: The tea
open.substack.com/pub/seburnt/...

#HowToInclusive #QueerInELT
Illustrated. Two bunnies having cups of tea. One says, "Want some tea?" The other replies with "Herbal or verbal?" White font overtop says "The tea. #LanguageIsQueer Episode 1".
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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That HP author is a vile villain of this story.
Tweet from JK Rowling that shows a photo of her smoking , holding a cocktail, while on a yacht or something, with smug in her eyes. She says she loves it when a plan comes together RE supreme court. Another quoter laughs at her being a supervillain thinking she's the good guy.
April 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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So I did a talk at #IATEFL2025 and it was pretty good, I think.
Me on the stage with a microphone in my hand; I have short blonde hair and I'm wearing a striped b&w polo shirt and army green cargo pants with white runners.
April 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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ermagerd help me.
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March 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM