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1 In this commentary, I do not endeavor to provide a full articulation of STEM learning environments as oppressive, i.e., racialized, gendered, classed, and stratified by constructions ability. Instead, I simply take oppression in and from STEM learning environments as well-established. Other scholars and researchers, including Bullock (Citation2017), Esmonde and Booker (Citation2016), Martin, Price, and Moore, (Citation2019), Mutegi (Citation2013), and Parsons and Dorsey (Citation2015) have provided both the theoretical and empirical grounding toward this claim.
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