Budding Rural Queer Scholar🌱. Middle School English, Creative Writing, & Theatre Teacher. Advocate. Traveler. he/him. Learning Everyday💛https://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3lv577celac2t🌾New Publication Alert‼️ Cultivating a sense of belonging through communities of care and joy: A journey with a budding rural, Queer scholar and activist International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 💛 Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/75R6BNCKRCN6BES6632Z/full?target=10.1080/09518398.2025.253938429 Jul 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv577celac2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3lv577celac2t🌾New Publication Alert‼️ Cultivating a sense of belonging through communities of care and joy: A journey with a budding rural, Queer scholar and activist International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 💛 Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/75R6BNCKRCN6BES6632Z/full?target=10.1080/09518398.2025.253938429 Jul 2025 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv577celac2thttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3llqx7alg4s2p💛 [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqx7alg4s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3limowwiixs2fRural Education and Queer Identities: Rural and (Out)Rooted is now available online! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌾 Preorders for the book will be mid March! https://www.routledge.com/Rural-Education-and-Queer-Identities-Rural-and-OutRooted/Whitten-Azano/p/book/9781032868240?srsltid=AfmBOooXcYdBOdCo_Xz-ErwgeVo5SwH3rmjJsdMXTU2mhZFptyxrRFKg20 Feb 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3limowwiixs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3lljoajq5uc2u🌾Super excited to share my most recent publication in the Journal of Research in Rural Education (JRRE) titled “Queerness in Rural Schools: A Literature Review Exploring the Intersection of Rurality and Queerness in K–12 Schools.” jrre.psu.edu/volume/4129 Mar 2025 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lljoajq5uc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3lj6mm7v5ts2pCheck out our newly launched humanities Saturday enrichment program! 💛 https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/02/clahs-middle-school-humanities.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2xpu3aosycyTsJ1z0bJjuLug1MCfwQ4ZkC6416E1OwJdtdLgFITa7DXgc_aem_OZs_E2p7qS3USLrPxe3-uA27 Feb 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6mm7v5ts2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3lj6mm7v5ts2pCheck out our newly launched humanities Saturday enrichment program! 💛 https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/02/clahs-middle-school-humanities.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2xpu3aosycyTsJ1z0bJjuLug1MCfwQ4ZkC6416E1OwJdtdLgFITa7DXgc_aem_OZs_E2p7qS3USLrPxe3-uA27 Feb 2025 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6mm7v5ts2phttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3liyvm3avis2n💛💛 [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Feb 2025 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyvm3avis2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3limyiyjkss2dNow available online! 💛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌾 Presale starts mid-March!! Introduction: A Pedagogy of Pride in Rural Schools is available on open access! 💛 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Feb 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3limyiyjkss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/drteacherwhitten.bsky.social/post/3limowwiixs2fRural Education and Queer Identities: Rural and (Out)Rooted is now available online! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌾 Preorders for the book will be mid March! https://www.routledge.com/Rural-Education-and-Queer-Identities-Rural-and-OutRooted/Whitten-Azano/p/book/9781032868240?srsltid=AfmBOooXcYdBOdCo_Xz-ErwgeVo5SwH3rmjJsdMXTU2mhZFptyxrRFKg20 Feb 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:mew4afuuiaujktxvxoukd45y/app.bsky.feed.post/3limowwiixs2f