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a feminist education consulting practice.

OUR MISSION

We are a collaborative of feminist education practitioners, scholars and researchers dedicated to advancing the complexities of difference in gender and sexuality in education towards a more equitable, just and inclusive future. Inspired by our deep networks of feminist accomplices and mentors, we decided to build this feminist education consulting practice.

We advance a critical feminist consciousness within education curricula, programs and projects through our commitment to praxis. Our goals are to inspire, complicate, support and lead practices of intersectional theories of gender and difference with schools and organizations.

Our hISTORY

RE|SCRIPTED came to be when Caitlin and Stephanie found the opportunity to try something new and enact the ideas they conjured together many years ago. Stephanie and Caitlin met at Teachers College, Columbia University. Caitlin was studying for a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Teaching when they met Stephanie, an instructor and doctoral candidate in the department of Curriculum and Teaching at the time. Appropriately, they met the semester Caitlin took the Designing Curriculum and Instruction course that Stephanie was teaching. It did not take long before Caitlin and Stephanie discovered they had many shared investments in gender-specific education and a shared urgency for more critical and feminist thinking in curricular spaces. Each had many years of teaching, learning and leading in single-sex schools, pro-girl non-profits, health and sexuality programming, and non-profit community education. During their two years and many conversations and courses together (and many micheladas), they found themselves weaving their experiences as a practitioner and researcher in gender-salient spaces, dancing between theory and practice, and dreaming of working together one day. Inspired by their deep networks of feminist accomplices and mentors, they decided to build this feminist education consulting practice. re|scripted has long been in the making.

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WHO WE ARE

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CAITLIN LONG, M.Ed, CHSE

Founder
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Caitlin is currently a sex educator and Head of Curriculum for Sex Positive Families. They have over ten years of experience working in gender-specific and social-emotional health education programming. They earned their Masters of Education in Curriculum and Teaching with an emphasis on gender and curriculum from Teachers College, Columbia University. They are an experienced sexuality educator, adult facilitator, curriculum designer, and public all-girls school teacher. She is a certified holistic sexuality educator (CHSE) through the Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment (ISEE), an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) approved provider program. In their ten years of experience, they learned how to make it easier for people (youth and adults) to engage critically, authentically, and vulnerably with each other.

Caitlin has worked for and collaborated with a multiplicity of gender-specific youth development professionals, educators, and non-profit organizations including Girls Athletic Leadership School, Girls Inc. of New York City and Girls Inc. of Metro Denver to create and implement, culturally sustaining, and critically responsive curriculum through peer-trainings, K-12 non-formal and formal educational programs, and customized professional development workshops. Caitlin also taught social-emotional health and wellness at Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver middle school and coached the implementation of their sexual health and signature SEL curricula. She was selected as an Iterative Space resident for the summer of 2020 cohort where they piloted pleasure-centered sex education courses with youth and caring adults in small learning groups in backyards at the start of Covid.

Their teaching methods are collaborative and encourage critical reflection about identity differences and are attentive to personal and collective histories. Her passion and interest in intersectional feminist praxis and sex education stem from their long-standing commitment to equity and creating access to knowledge that unites theory and practice. At the core of their values are teaching tools of empathy, connection, pleasure, and creating learning conditions that raise critical consciousness of inequities in our world and our own roles in reproducing and resisting them. These commitments translate to all past and present consulting work with schools and organizations.

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CAITLIN LONG, M.Ed, CHSE

Founder

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Stephanie D. McCall, Ed. D.

Founder
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Dr. Stephanie McCall has studied, researched, published and practiced in curriculum theory and the field of girls’ education for over 25 years. Stephanie earned her doctorate in curriculum studies with an emphasis in curriculum theory and gender from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed her M.Ed. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in learning and teaching and her B.A. in English from The University of Texas at Austin. She served two years as part of Teach For America in Los Angeles in South Central Los Angeles and continued her commitment for an additional year. She currently teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Stephanie recently published a book Girls, Single-sex Schools and Postfeminist Fantasies (Routledge, 2020) where she contextualizes the education of girls in sex-segregated schools in the curricular knowledge of the day. The book demonstrates her research experience, depth of knowledge, curriculum analysis research, and understanding of gender and girlhood in a postfeminist context.

Combined with years of teaching curriculum design and curriculum analysis, Stephanie actively translates theory to practice in numerous professional roles, including her current role as Scholar in Residence at Kansas City Girls Prep (Missouri). These roles exemplify her commitment to putting her research and theory into action towards an equitable  education for all girls.  Her work as a middle and high school English teacher, a secondary school leader and administrator, curriculum coach and consultant, and teacher educator in public and private schools across the country has informed her understanding of complex opportunity structures and the political terrain of equity and access at the intersection of difference. Her years in schools and classrooms continue to inspire her teaching with many kinds of educators and teachers at the university and secondary school levels. Her work is inspired by critical feminist theories through her commitment to interrogating which differences matter in the design and enactment of school and curricular knowledge.

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Stephanie D. McCall, Ed. D.

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Advisors And Collaborators

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Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW

Sex Positive Families
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Melissa is a renowned sexuality educator, best-selling author, and leading national voice for sex positive education. Her work has been featured in CNN, Huffington Post, Parents Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, BlackLove, and more.

Melissa is the founder of Sex Positive Families, an online platform that provides education and resources to families wishing to raise sexually healthy children. Since its inception in 2017, Sex Positive Families has grown its online communities, now impacting over 300,000 engaged followers and counting. They also serve thousands of tweens and families across the globe each year with their virtual gender-inclusive interactive puberty workshop and online course called Growing Into You!™.

As a Black, Puerto Rican, and Mexican licensed social worker with over 15 years in the field of sexual health, Melissa is known for their approachability and sense of humor that makes even the most uncomfortable conversations feel achievable.

Melissa has taught comprehensive sexuality education in schools, authored curricula, trained youth-serving professionals, and worked within HIV/AIDS case management and prevention at both nonprofit and state government levels. Her life’s mission continues to be rooted in the belief that all children deserve holistic, comprehensive, and shame-free sexuality education so they can live informed, empowered, and safer lives.

Alongside her professional experience, Melissa is most proud to be a parent raising three young people in a sex positive way. They are the constant inspiration for the work.

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Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW

Sex Positive Families

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Bianca I. Laureano, PhD, h.c., MA, CSE, CSES

Ante Up!
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Bianca I Laureano is an award-winning educator, facilitator, curriculum writer, and sexologist. She is a founding member of the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WOCSHN) and The LatiNegrxs Project. Her most recent project is ANTE UP! a virtual freedom school for justice workers offering professional development and certification we need for doing the work during these challenging times. Bianca earned her BA in Individual Studies with a focus on Latina Sexualities in 2000 from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned a Masters of Arts from NYU in Human Sexuality Education in 2002 and a second Masters of Arts from the University of Maryland in Women’s Studies with a focus on sexualities, race, and racialization in 2006.  While at UM she was a CrISP Scholar at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and helped create the Intersectional Research Database. She has written several curricula that focus on communities of color: What’s the REAL DEAL about Love and Solidarity? (2015) and Communication MixTape: Speak On It Vol 1. (2017) and wrote the sexual and reproductive justice discussion guide for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene published in 2018.  Bianca led the curriculum development for the Netflix film Crip Camp which is rooted in disability justice principles available at www.CripCamp.com/curriculum. Bianca has been on the board of CLAGS, the LGBTQ Center at CUNY, The Black Girl Project, and SisterSong. She currently resides in Oakland, CA with her core partner G and is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and supervisor. Bianca was awarded an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in May 2020. Find out more about Bianca at her website BiancaLaureano.com and about ANTE UP! at www.AnteUpPD.com

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Bianca I. Laureano, PhD, h.c., MA, CSE, CSES

Ante Up!

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Karishma Desai, Ed. D.

Rutgers University
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Dr. Karishma Desai’s interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and professional engagements employ anthropological and feminist lenses in the study of childhood/youth, gender, and education. Her central concerns gravitate around the politics of knowledge and being and attend to how gendered and racialized differences are stabilized and unsettled. She examines the contested ways in which global norms about gender and childhood/youth are consolidated, translated, and negotiated in educational sites predominantly in South Asia and the United States. Attending to global discourses alongside the everyday embodied and relational cultural lives of young people within unequal educational contexts, she investigates the kinds of gendered subjectivities that are forwarded as desirable with particular attention to the values, aspirations, and affective orientations made available. In doing so, she is interested in onto-epistemic questions related to sites of figuring and educating young people. She asks: what knowledges and ontologies matter in constructions of gendered childhoods? How have they come to matter and how are they disrupted? As a scholar and educator, she is invested in attending to educational problems by foregrounding the construction of youth, their complex material lives, subjugated knowledges, and modes of being that might offer new possibilities. These questions and investments result in the study of coloniality within educational sites and feminist scholarship that decenters liberal, anthropocentric constructions of the human. Dr. Desai’s research and teaching commitments build on over 15 years of experience as a classroom teacher and instructional leader in New York City and Chicago, as well as her work with educators and curriculum design in the United States, South Asia, and East Africa for over fifteen years.

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Karishma Desai, Ed. D.

Rutgers University

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Rachel Mewes, MA

Rethink Ed
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Rachel Mewes is a curriculum designer and educator, whose areas of interest lie in sexuality and social justice education.  They hold a Masters in Curriculum and Teaching and a Sexuality, Women and Gender Certificate from Teachers College of Columbia University. Their interest in sexuality education has been informed by their work in the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence at the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness and Sexual Violence Response at Columbia University. They have also written for Go Ask Alice!, using research to answer questions on sexuality, gender, and sexual health. For their Masters Project, Rachel created a curriculum titled Queering Normalcy that draws on Critical Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory to expand our conceptions of what sexuality education can do through lessons that explore nuance, intersectionality, agency, and power.

Rachel has facilitated a diverse range of programming for youth and adult audiences and designed curriculum for a range of groups including companies, schools, museums, and nonprofits.  They are committed to innovative pedagogy that centers student knowledge and actively challenges injustice and oppression. They are interested in how curriculum can de-normalize our present conditions and serve as a portal to the world we want to see.

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Rachel Mewes, MA

Rethink Ed

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Connor Breen, MA

Children’s AIDS Society – NYC
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Connor (he/him) is a sexual health educator with Children’s Aid. As a former survivor advocate and community educator at The SAFE Alliance, Connor has nurtured a steadfast commitment to consent-affirming sex education and violence prevention curricula. His direct service background has contributed to an educational approach that recognizes lived experience as valuable knowledge and respects student agency. While Connor earned his Master’s in Curriculum & Teaching from Teachers College he collaborated with faculty and other sex educators to design and facilitate age-appropriate sex education for upper elementary students, and also developed a guide that empowers young children to learn about their boundaries and bodily autonomy. Connor holds a BSA in Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Austin, where he focused on the intersection of the socialization of masculinity and sexual violence prevention.

Connor welcomes opportunities to engage men in honest conversations about performing expectations of masculinity, unlearning lessons that undercut healthy relationships, and actionable ways to dismantle power-based violence. Throughout his work across age ranges (K-college) and educational contexts, Connor has witnessed the transformative power of people embracing their own authenticity over gendered scripts, and strives to create a learning environment that fosters those moments of transformation. He has led conversations with students about consent, safer sex practices, sexual harassment, how to support a friend who’s experienced sexual assault, restorative justice, and other topics tailored to specific requests. He is excited to continue learning with students and folks of all ages who consistently enrich evolving conversations about sex education and violence prevention with honesty, curiosity, and unique insight.

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Connor Breen, MA

Children’s AIDS Society – NYC

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Girls, single-sex schools, and postfeminist fantasies
Stephanie D. McCall
Pink brains and education: a postfeminit analysis of neuroscience and neurosexism.
Nancy Lesko and Stephanie D. McCall Teachers College Columbia University
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Mapping the Promises and Seductions of Successful Female Futures

Stephanie D. McCall

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