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Don't Speak For A Group Whose Voice Doesn't Belong To You
by Jude Gadingan Anyone that’s done debate can certainly agree with me when I say that it’s both a wonderful activity while...
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Interp, Please F*cking Do Better
By Cayla Thames Content Warnings: S*xual Ass*ult, R*pe, PTSD I want to preface this by saying that this is by far the hardest thing I...
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Making Debate Accessible for People with PTSD
By Anonymous CW: Non-graphic mentions of PTSD and abuse Going into debate, I never thought that I would be taken advantage of in round...
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Love, Hate, and Dysphoria - My Relationship to Public Forum Debate
By Sean Wallace CONTENT WARNING: graphic descriptions of my experiences with transphobia and gender dysphoria, swearing/cursing. You can...
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Frozen Livestream
By Anonymous Content Warning: This blog post concerns rape and subsequent trauma. Descriptions are non-graphic, but subject matter is...
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Theory Debate for Small Schools
By Mikil Foss and Kevin Tran The PF topic for September/October was “Resolved: The United States federal government should enact the...
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Novice Inaccessibility is a Problem
By Sanah Bhardwaj **TW: ANXIETY** There is nothing as magical as the world of debate. To the unsuspecting outsider, debaters seem like...
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Stuck in a Broken Elevator
By Anna Brent-Levenstein [Disclaimer: I am a white, straight, cisgender female debater. I am nowhere close to the most marginalized...
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Debate Can Be Accessible AND Safe
By Anonymous Over my school’s extended winter break, I begrudgingly agreed to judge a high school debate tournament because I really...
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To My Fellow Alumni
By Yilin Li Hi! I'm a fellow alum (phew! feels so nice to say that) and wanted to reach out to fellow marginalized...
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My Eyes Are Up Here
By Anonymous I am a womxn, former Congress debater, and current coach. I am also a G cup. I am not just a G cup -- I am a G cup on a...
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Non-Indigenous Debaters, Please Stop Reading Sett Col
By Anonymous Whenever I hear someone start their 1NC with Settler Colonialism, my stomach sinks. It essentially leaves me, an Indigenous...
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On the Importance of Inclusivity in Debate
By Marist Alumni ‘16 *** The goal of this post isn’t to blame, call out, or “cancel” any particular individuals from our debate...
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“I am speaking.” We Know, Senator Harris. Love, Female High School Debaters Everywhere.
I’ve always felt like I could sniff out another debater from anywhere. There’s something about the demeanor and rhetoric of a high school...
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Are You Actually An Ally?
By Alex Watson For context, this is primarily directed at those in the debate community with privilege, mainly cisgender, heterosexual,...
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You Sound Gay
By Anonymous in June 2020 Warning: profanity, cursing(including the f slur), mentions of homophobia and brief mention of depression. ~~~~...
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Switch Side Debate- A Double Edged Sword
By Sean Wallace Content Warning: This article discusses structural violence, specifically concerning queer bodies, and brief mentions of...
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The Brightline on Disclosure
by Sydney V Frtiz At my school, a public institution nestled in southwestern Virginia, I captain a team of around twenty debaters. We’re...
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To Whom It May Concern
By: Lydia Haindfield, Joy Yochem, Bailie Schaefer, & Anonymous Compiled by: Sydney Fritz There is no argument within these words; they...
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A Wakeup Call for the Circuit
by Arya Mirza The fact that it was a struggle for me to find enough womxn coaches to interview about this article is in and of itself...
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