Episode 54: Sam Long

Gender Reveal

In this week’s episode, guest host Mckenzee Griffler (she/her) speaks with Gender Reveal grant winner Sam Long (he/him), a high school biology teacher working to make science classes more diverse, accurate and inclusive. Topics include:

• What most high school biology classes get wrong
• Becoming the first trans astronaut
• Queering curriculums (through animal mating rituals)
• How being gay could help a population(!)
• Finding trans Nemo?!?

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Find Sam at sam-long.weebly.com and at @samlong713. Sam also recommends learning more about his collaborator, Lewis Maday-Travis, at fishyteaching.com.

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