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Hey you. It's Tyson and Taylor here. We're thrilled to bring you back into the werkbook space for this new drop! Welcome back. In this episode, we share a new story: What does it mean to stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden? For Ethan, that question stretches across continents, starting in Vietnam with lotto and parents, moves through to the United States with research work, follow...

Welcome to this episode of werkbook! Tyson Seburn & Taylor Veigga explore what being Queer actually looks like for eleven Queer ELT folx—across cultures, generations, religions, and life stages. EXCLUSIVE RELEASE @ #IATEFL2026 In this episode, Ani, a Brazilian educator who identifies as travesti, shares her journey from navigating gender identity in a conservative environment to building a ful...

Welcome to this episode of werkbook! Tyson Seburn & Taylor Veigga explore what being Queer actually looks like for eleven Queer ELT folx—across cultures, generations, religions, and life stages. In this episode, we meet with Gaye (he/she/they), who is from Türkiye. They are pansexual and bigender. Most of us don’t grow up with the words to describe our identities that clearly; in fact, we aren...

Welcome to this episode of werkbook! We explore what being Queer actually looks like for eleven Queer ELT folx—across cultures, generations, religions, and life stages. Thank you, from hosts Tyson Seburn and Taylor Veigga, for caring and sharing inside and outside our communities! In this episode, we share space with Chad Langford, a Queer American, who is a language teacher living in France for f...

Welcome to this episode of werkbook! We explore what coming out to family actually looks like—across cultures, generations, religions, and life stages. Tyson and Taylor include personal reflections on coming out to parents in Canada and Brazil shaped by religion, fear, and love, and situate these stories in and out of the broader contexts explored by the nine guests we get to hear from. From there...

Welcome to our first episode, where we come out together as a community, podcast hosts, and podcast editors! Taylor says it best when she describes the stories we include as being "unpolished".  Taylor & Tyson discuss the origin of this project, the meaning behind the name (it's not incorrect spelling, we swear!), coming out stories, the phrase itself, and ways in which media has shaped the vi...