Episode 16 · Season II · S2.E5 · Apr 24, 2026 · 10:27
The Backlash: Why Newly Legitimate Knowledge Gets Targeted
Marginalized knowledge does not stay marginalized, and it does not stay curricular either. This episode names the three-move cycle — dismissal, absorption, restriction — that dominant knowledge systems run when bodies of knowledge from the margin reach the record, and traces its most recent appearance in the wave of state-level curriculum laws since 2020.
The Backlash: Why Newly Legitimate Knowledge Gets Targeted
“Legitimacy is not the end of the story. It is the trigger for the next phase of it.”
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