# The future really is queer: How Queer Educator Representation Impacts Students | Ep. 190 (with Julia Lathin)

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Podcast: [Queering Education: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Teaching, Queer Pedagogy, and Real Classroom Practice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queering-education-lgbtq-inclusive-teaching-queer-pedagogy-and-real-classroom-practice-5492858)
Published: 2026-01-22T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, host Bryan Stanton (they/them) talks with Julia Lathin (she/her), a lesbian art teacher in Los Angeles, about the evolution of her teaching—from closeted survival in a Michigan Catholic school with a morality clause, to building affirming, creative classrooms for queer youth in California. Listeners will learn: What it meant to teach under a “morality clause” while hiding key parts of her identityHow one small phrase—“pick a better word”—became a lifelong teaching mantraPr...

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