Great post! It is exhausting to hear people dismiss race and other identities by saying that they “don’t see it”. In my opinion, it allows people to ignore their own biases and convince themselves that they are good people. Acknowledgement of what makes people different is so important, and can make or break a student’s performance in a class.

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Hey, great post and infographic! I also catch myself thinking of inclusion as a race/gender issue when it’s so much more than that. I often forget about the less visible components of it like disabilities. For a long time I had trouble focusing in long classes and was easily distracted. It was several years before teachers realized that I wasn’t a troublemaker or uninterested in the work. Hopefully, we can start tailoring teaching/learning to the individual, so they can perform better in class.

Excellent post and great links to go along with it. It’s disgusting that some people try to justify their biases with science. I hope that this way of thinking really dies out as younger, more diverse scientists enter the field. Thanks for sharing.

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Hi Deborah,

Yes, it’s important to have these conversations when we are all young so that solving these issues becomes embedded in our morals. However, I feel like these topics aren’t relevant until later in life, which may be why they aren’t addressed in an effective way when we are younger. I feel like people need to have some level of maturity to understand these issues. How can we teach these lessons to children in K-12?