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Megan Howe

Top London private school shakes up English curriculum with drag queen memoir and non-binary writers

Work by the drag queen and gay rights activist Rory O’Neill, known as Panti Bliss, has been added to the English curriculum at Alleyn’s School in London - (90Ten)

Students at a leading London private school are studying a drag queen’s memoir and works by non-binary authors as part of a push to “diversify” the English curriculum.

Staff at Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, south-east London, said in a blog post that the authors were introduced as part of a “genuine diversification” of the curriculum.

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