Any Questions? A Comic on LGBTQ+ Inclusion for Educators was written by Hugh Ryan and illustrated by Cristy Road, in collaboration with DOE educators. Any Questions? introduces issues, situations, and events having to do with LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools to support conversations between educators and promote professional learning. Via the Any Questions? comic, educators follow a fictionalized teacher, Ms. Velez, to see how she attempts to address LGBTQ+ inclusion, examining both her successes and the challenges she faces along the way.
Creating a welcoming classroom is an ongoing process: a set of decisions we make daily, weekly and yearly. There may be mistakes and there is no perfect playbook that will provide you with all the right answers, but the hope is that this comic offers educators a low-stakes opportunity to reflect on their own practice, preparation and planning. They also hope that Any Questions is a reminder that WE are not in this work alone. Just as Ms Velez’ was helped by her colleagues and external supports in the story, they want educators to know about and have access to NYCDOE resources and community-based organizations that specialize in LGBTQA+ inclusion. Tio that end they identified resources in the narrative and at the end of the comic to make the classroom more inclusive. The intent of the comic is for educators to use the end of the comic as a jumping-off point for specific about schools context.
Finally they recognize that every classroom, like every student inside it, is different, and ahs different needs.
Author Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. He is the Founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History and sits on the Boards of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, and the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Buzzfeed, the LA Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. The author of When Brooklyn Was Queer, he is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, and a 2018 residency at The Watermill Center.
Illustrator Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice, she thrives to testify to the beauty of the imperfect. Her obsession with making art (and her emotions) publicly accessible began when publishing Greenzine in 1997—a fanzine originally devoted to Green Day. Today Road works as a freelance illustrator. She has produced two illustrated novels, a book of postcards, and finished her first graphic novel, Spit and Passion, in 2013. Taking writing and visual elements more seriously, her visual diagram of lifestyles and beliefs stay in tune to the zine’s portrayal of living\
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