How do we become aware of history that challenges our own personal narrative? The fact is those stories and narratives don’t have to be sought.
They often already exist in my classroom. Educators simply just need to make a safe space for those stories. And for ourselves, we often ask: How do I encourage students to seek out alternatives to the white heterosexual narrative?We encourage students to ask themselves “who else?” when they hear a story.
When a textbook tells them that Watson and Crick discovered the structure and function of DNA, they must ask “who else?” Rosalind Franklin made critical contributions to this discovery, but her story is less often told.