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My challenges

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Hi everyone! This is my last post on this subject (I think so) and I will talk about my experience on learning English at this university. First, I'm glad for having Benjamin as teacher, because I could openly   express  my gender and identity without judging, and be trust-blindly, knowing he will respect me. It has been a long path for us to openly express what we really are, and unfortunately, many teachers in this university don't respect diversity (in any way). Sometimes, in the classroom, my dead name was shown on the screen, but the teacher talk to me in my real name, and just ignore my d/n, and that's something VERY important to me. I'm also very grateful for letting me talk and write gender-neutral words, in blogs and activities, like using "they" instead "he" or "she", and not correct me for doing that. Even if it's something very little for some people, it differentiate this class from another class in university .  In additio...

Things that I wish I could change

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Hello everyone, we are finally returning to class, and on this occasion I will talk about the things I would like to change. First, I won't talk about all the stuff because this blog will be never-ending. The curriculum and the workload need changes, but the most important thing to me is the access for people from the diversity and neurodivergent, which involves faculty facilities, the technology, and the teaching methods. I recently worked on a call working for the "Oficina de Equidad e Inclusión" at university, and I could see all the wrong things in the university that people who don't belong to diversity don't notice. Foremost, for people with low hearing using hearing aids, being in the classroom is annoying and deficient because many of them aren't built anti-noise, so it's difficult for people with hearing aids to pay attention to what the teacher is talking about for the noise pollution. Also, the same concerns neurodivergent or autistic people bec...